Rosa Luxemburg famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.
-- Rosa Luxemburg

#Inspirational #Encouraging #Peace
Before a revolution happens, it is perceived as impossible; after it happens, it is seen as having been inevitable.
-- Rosa Luxemburg

#Revolution #Impossible #Inevitable
The most revolutionary thing one can do is always to proclaim loudly what is happening.
-- Rosa Luxemburg

#Revolutionary #Happenings #Can Do
The most revolutionary act is a clear view of the world as it really is.
-- Rosa Luxemburg

#Views #World #Clear View
Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.
-- Rosa Luxemburg

#Inspirational #Women #Acceptance
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.
-- Rosa Luxemburg

#Beautiful #Mean #Destiny
Without general elections, without freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, without the free battle of opinions, life in every public institution withers away, becomes a caricature of itself, and bureaucracy rises as the only deciding factor.
-- Rosa Luxemburg

#Freedom #Battle #Speech
Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism.
-- Rosa Luxemburg

#Transition #Regression #Socialism
We will be victorious if we have not forgotten how to learn.
-- Rosa Luxemburg

#Forgotten #Ifs
Freedom only for supporters of the government, only for the members of one party - however numerous they may be - is no freedom at all. Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently. Not because of any fanatical concept of 'justice' but because all that is instructive, wholesome and purifying in political freedom depends on this essential characteristic, and its effectiveness vanishes when 'freedom' becomes a special privilege.
-- Rosa Luxemburg

#Party #Thinking #Government
Capitalism, as a result of its own inner contradictions, moves toward a point when it will be unbalanced, when it will simply become impossible.
-- Rosa Luxemburg

#Moving #Impossible #Contradiction
Only to the rude ear of one who is quite indifferent does the song of a bird seem always the same.
-- Rosa Luxemburg

#Song #Rude #Bird
The working classes in every country only learn to fight in the course of their struggles.
-- Rosa Luxemburg

#Country #Struggle #Fighting
Those who don't move don't notice their chains.
-- Rosa Luxemburg

#Moving #Chains
Friedrich Engels once said: "Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism." What does "regression into barbarism" mean to our lofty European civilization? Until now, we have all probably read and repeated these words thoughtlessly, without suspecting their fearsome seriousness. A look around us at this moment shows what the regression of bourgeois society into barbarism means. This world war is a regression into barbarism. The triumph of imperialism leads to the annihilation of civilization.
-- Rosa Luxemburg

#War #Mean #Civilization
Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters.
-- Rosa Luxemburg

#Freedom
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!
-- Rosa Luxemburg

#Weapons #Revolution #Tomorrow
Bourgeois class domination is undoubtedly an historical necessity, but, so too, the rising of the working class against it. Capital is an historical necessity, but, so too, its grave digger, the socialist proletariat.
-- Rosa Luxemburg

#Class #Historical #Rising
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.
-- Rosa Luxemburg

#Ignorance #Class #People
The masses are in reality their own leaders, dialectically creating their own development process.
-- Rosa Luxemburg

#Leadership #Reality #Creating
Self-criticism, cruel, unsparing criticism that goes to the very root of the evil, is life and breath for the proletarian movement.
-- Rosa Luxemburg

#Self #Roots #Evil
History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.
-- Rosa Luxemburg

#Teacher #School #History
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.
-- Rosa Luxemburg

#Leadership #Determination #Destiny

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