Karl Liebknecht

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

— Karl Liebknecht

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

— Karl Liebknecht

Incendiary capitalism is carrying its out evil works more dangerously than ever, and is doing so in the increasingly dangerous neighborhood of…

— Karl Liebknecht

Consider well this fact: As long as the German people does not arise and use force directed by its own will, the…

— Karl Liebknecht

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

— Karl Liebknecht

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

— Karl Liebknecht

In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the…

— 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

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

— Karl Liebknecht

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

— Karl Liebknecht

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

— Karl Liebknecht

The aim of my life is the overthrow of monarchy.

— Karl Liebknecht

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

— Karl Liebknecht

Just as invasion is the true and tried weapon in the hands of capital against the class struggle, so on 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…

— Karl Liebknecht

This republic represents the greatest basis for that universal socialist order, the creation of which is at the present time the historic…

— Karl Liebknecht

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

— Karl Liebknecht

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

— 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

Capitalism is war; socialism is peace.

— Karl Liebknecht

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

— Karl Liebknecht

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

— Karl Liebknecht

Workers, comrades, and you, women of the people, let not this festival of May, the second during the war, pass without protest…

— Karl Liebknecht

At the crash of economic collapse of which the rumblings can already be heard, the sleeping soldiers of the proletariat will awake…

— Karl Liebknecht