Karl Liebknecht Quotes

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

Law, Both, Capitalism

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

Blood, Vampire, Globe

Capitalism is war; socialism is peace.
Karl Liebknecht

Peace, War, Socialism

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

Failure, Whole, Defeat

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

Alone, Socialism, Bring

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

Peace, War, Business

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

Group, Creation

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

Present, National, Wars

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

Free, Rights, Socialism

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

War, Live, Long

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

Democracy, Social, Party

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

Life, Aim, Monarchy

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

Between, Tongue, Hold

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

Revolution, Whole, Cause

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

Experience, Forget, Through

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

Great, Country, Yes

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

Peace, Struggle, Democracy

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

Long, Fact, Force

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

History, Struggle, Means

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

Great, Evil, Dangerous

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

True, Struggle, Against

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

Time, Greatest, Order

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

Him, Free, Another

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

Women, War, May

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Politician

Born: August 13, 1871

Died: January 15, 1919

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