Karl Liebknecht Quotations

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.