Facts about Karl Liebknecht

Occup.	Politician
From	Germany
Born	August 13, 1871
Died	January 15, 1919
Aged	47 years

Summary

Karl Liebknecht was a famous Politician from Germany, who lived between August 13, 1871 and January 15, 1919. He/she became 47 years old.

Zodiac:

He/she is born under the zodiac leo, who is known for Ruling, Warmth, Generosity, Faithful, Initiative. Our collection contains 24 quotes who is written / told by Karl.

24 Famous quotes by Karl Liebknecht

"The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I"

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

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

Karl Liebknecht

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

Karl Liebknecht

"Capitalism is war; socialism is peace"

Karl Liebknecht

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

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

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

Karl Liebknecht

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

Karl Liebknecht

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

Karl Liebknecht

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

Karl Liebknecht

"Yes, Socialists should defend their country in great historical crises"

Karl Liebknecht

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

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

"For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business"

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

"The aim of my life is the overthrow of monarchy"

Karl Liebknecht

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

Karl Liebknecht

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

Karl Liebknecht

"In the present imperialistic milieu there can be no wars of national self-defense"

Karl Liebknecht

"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

"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

"The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole world"

Karl Liebknecht