Capitalism is war; socialism is peace.
- Karl Liebknecht Quote

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 Quote

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

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

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 Quote

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 Quote

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 Quote

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 Quote

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 Quote