Rosa Luxemburg Quotes

The most revolutionary thing one can do is always to proclaim loudly what is happening.

Before a revolution happens, it is perceived as impossible; after it happens, it is seen as having been inevitable.

Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.

Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

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.

There is no democracy without socialism, and no socialism without democracy.

The most revolutionary act is a clear view of the world as it really is.

We will be victorious if we have not forgotten how to learn.

The working classes in every country only learn to fight in the course of their struggles.

Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism.

Only to the rude ear of one who is quite indifferent does the song of a bird seem always the same.

Marxism is a revolutionary worldview that must always struggle for new revelations.

The masses are in reality their own leaders, dialectically creating their own development process.

Capitalism, as a result of its own inner contradictions, moves toward a point when it will be unbalanced, when it will simply become impossible.

The masses are the decisive element, they are the rock on which the final victory of the revolution will be built.

Self-criticism, cruel, unsparing criticism that goes to the very root of the evil, is life and breath for the proletarian movement.

Tomorrow the revolution will 'rise up again, clashing its weapons,' and to your horror it will proclaim with trumpets blazing: I was, I am, I shall be!

Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters.

[Geology] opens up such wide intellectual vistas and supplies a more perfectly unified and more comprehensive conception of nature than any other science.

Tomorrow the revolution will already 'raise itself with a rattle' and announce with fanfare, to your terror: I was, I am, I will be!

The clergy, no less than the capitalist class, lives on the backs of the people, profits from the degradation, the ignorance and the oppression of the people.

Revolutionary tactics cannot be invented by leaders; they must develop spontaneously-history comes first, leaders' consciousness second.

Those who don't move don't notice their chains.

With the true artist, the social formula that he recommends is a matter of secondary importance; the source of his art, its animating spirit, is decisive.

History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.

Life is singing also in the sand crunching under the slow and heavy steps of the guards, when we know how to listen to it.

The victory of socialism will not descend like fate from heaven.

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.

The high stage of world-industrial development in capitalistic production finds expression in the extraordinary technical development and destructiveness of the instruments of war.

Social democracy.. is only the advance guard of the proletariat, a small piece of the total working masses; blood from their blood, and flesh from their flesh.

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.

She had privacy, and the privilege of walking up and down the same battlements as the sentries.

In the Imperialist Era, the foreign loan played an outstanding part as a means for young capitalist countries to acquire independence.

Work for legal reform takes place only within the framework of the social form created by the last revolution.