25 Quotes by Karl Liebknecht

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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