Being human means throwing your whole life on the scales of destiny when need be, all the while rejoicing in every sunny day and every beautiful cloud.
Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.
Freiheit ist immer die Freiheit des AndersdenkendenFreedom is always, and exclusively, freedom for the one who thinks differently.
I want to affect people like a clap of thunder, to inflame their minds with the breadth of my vision, the strength of my conviction and the power of my expression.
What presents itself to us as bourgeois legality is nothing but the violence of the ruling class, a violence raised to an obligatory norm from the outset.
Socialism does not mean getting together in a parliament and passing laws, socialism means for us overthrowing the ruling classes with all the brutality [loud laughter] that the proletariat is capable of deploying in its struggle.
My dear, it is very nice here, every day two or three persons are stabbed by soldiers in the city; there are daily arrests, but apart from these it is pretty gay..
We will be victorious if we have not forgotten how to learn.
Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.
History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.
In the Imperialist Era, the foreign loan played an outstanding part as a means for young capitalist countries to acquire independence.
The more that social democracy develops, grows, and becomes stronger, the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies, the leadership of their movement, and the determination of its direction into their own hands.
Freedom only for the members of the government, only for the members of the Party – though they are quite numerous – is no freedom at all.
Social democracy seeks and finds the ways, and particular slogans, of the workers’ struggle only in the course of the development of this struggle, and gains directions for the way forward through this struggle alone.
Work for legal reform takes place only within the framework of the social form created by the last revolution.
Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.