Class struggle: external peace, international solidarity, peace among peoples. This is the sacred slogan of international socialist democracy that liberates nations. – Karl Liebknecht
For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business. – Karl Liebknecht
But Socialism, alone, can bring self-determination of their peoples. – Karl Liebknecht
There is a homely directness about these rustic apothegms which makes them far more palatable than the strained and sophisticated epigrams of the characters of Oscar Wilde’s plays, who are ever striving strenuously to dazzle us with verbal pyrotechnics. – Brander Matthews, “American Aphorisms,” Harper’s Magazine, November 1915,