Quiz: Abraham Lincoln, Karl Marx, Or Friedrich Nietzsche—Who Said It?
Quiz: Abraham Lincoln, Karl Marx, Or Friedrich Nietzsche—Who Said It?
Abraham Lincoln, Karl Marx, and Friedrich Nietzsche were some of the most influential thinkers of the nineteenth century. Think you can tell them apart? Take our quiz and find out!
Abraham Lincoln, Karl Marx, and Friedrich Nietzsche were some of the most influential thinkers of the nineteenth century. Think you can tell them apart? Take our quiz and find out!
"There are no facts, only interpretations."
"Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration."
"Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society."
"Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow."
"In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule."
"History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this."
"Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex."
"No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent."
"If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist."
"The prudent, penniless beginner in the world, labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land, for himself; then labors on his own account another while, and at length hires another new beginner to help him. This, say its advocates, is free labor—the just and generous, and prosperous system, which opens the way for all—gives hope to all, and energy, and progress, and improvement of condition to all."
“A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.”
"He who thinks much is not suited to be a party member: too soon, he thinks himself through and beyond the party."
"The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise—with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew."