Liebknecht Karl Quotes & Sayings

In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other. — Karl Liebknecht

When summoned hence to thine eternal sleep, Oh, may'st thou smile while all around thee weep. — Charles Wesley

The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I. — Karl Liebknecht

This republic represents the greatest basis for that universal socialist order, the creation of which is at the present time the historic task of the International Proletariat. — Karl Liebknecht

Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire. — Karl Liebknecht

Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy. — Karl Liebknecht

But Socialism, alone, can bring self-determination of their peoples. — Karl Liebknecht

Long live the liberation of the workers off all countries from the infernal chasm of war, exploitation and slavery! — Karl Liebknecht

Capitalism is war; socialism is peace. — Karl Liebknecht

At 8 o'clock in the morning a dense throng of workers - almost 10,000 - assembled in the square, which the police had already occupied well ahead of time. Karl Liebknecht's voice then rang out: 'Down with the War! Down with the Government!' The police immediately rushed at him. For the first time since the beginning of the war open resistance to it had appeared on the streets of the capital. The ice was broken. — Paul Frolich

At the crash of economic collapse of which the rumblings can already be heard, the sleeping soldiers of the proletariat will awake as at the fanfare of the Last Judgment and the corpses of the victims of the struggle will arise and demand an accounting from those who are loaded down with curses. — Karl Liebknecht

Just as invasion is the true and tried weapon in the hands of capital against the class struggle, so on the other hand the fearless pursuit of the class struggle has always proven the most effective preventative of foreign invasions. — Karl Liebknecht

Workers, comrades, and you, women of the people, let not this festival of May, the second during the war, pass without protest against the Imperialist Slaughter. — Karl Liebknecht

Consider well this fact: As long as the German people does not arise and use force directed by its own will, the assassination of the people will continue. — Karl Liebknecht

Incendiary capitalism is carrying its out evil works more dangerously than ever, and is doing so in the increasingly dangerous neighborhood of the powder kegs that are the great European military powers. — Karl Liebknecht

Gossiping is essential for survival because the complex mechanics of social interactions are constantly changing, so we have to make sense of this ever-shifting social terrain. This is Level II consciousness at work. But once we hear a piece of gossip, we immediately run simulations to determine how this will affect our own standing in the community, which moves us to Level III consciousness. Thousands of years ago, in fact, gossip was the only way to obtain vital information about the tribe. One's very life often depended on knowing the latest gossip. — Michio Kaku

If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.' — A.R. Ammons

The aim of my life is the overthrow of monarchy. — Karl Liebknecht

International socialism recognizes the right of free independent nations, with equal rights. — Karl Liebknecht

And you know what else I used to love? I loved to watch you get into your car and drive away - just because it meant you knew exactly what you were doing, and because you always did it so well. — Richard Yates

The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole world. — Karl Liebknecht

In all our losses, all our gains,
In all our pleasures, all our pains,
The life of life is: Love remains.
In every change from good to ill,-
If love continues still,
Let happen then what will. — Theodore Tilton

Class struggle: external peace, international solidarity, peace among peoples. This is the sacred slogan of international socialist democracy that liberates nations. — Karl Liebknecht

My first job as premier will be to go back to basics. — Lara Giddings

Imperialism is not the creation of any one or any one group of states. — Karl Liebknecht

To the socialist no nation is free whose national existence is based upon the enslavement of another people, for to him colonial peoples, too, are peoples, and, as such, parts of the national state. — Karl Liebknecht

Yes, Socialists should defend their country in great historical crises. — Karl Liebknecht

Through this experience we have been warned - learn everything, don't forget anything! — Karl Liebknecht

Who is to say who is the villain and who is the hero? Probably the dictionary. — Joss Whedon

The Russian revolution was to an unprecedented degree the cause of the proletariat of the whole world becoming more revolutionary. — Karl Liebknecht

In the present imperialistic milieu there can be no wars of national self-defense. — Karl Liebknecht

For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business. — Karl Liebknecht

The new Germany has the unquestionable right to hold its tongue between its teeth. — Karl Liebknecht