# Rosa Luxemburg's most famous quotes

"Freedom is always the freedom of the one who thinks differently", "I was, I am, I shall be" and life to be taken bravely and smiling: the most quoted lines of Rosa Luxemburg, from her writings and prison letters, with their source.

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- Mar 6, 2020 · fraunetzfund
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## Top 12

1. **Freedom is always the freedom of the one who thinks differently.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — The Russian Revolution (1918, published 1922).
2. **I was, I am, I shall be!** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — "Order Prevails in Berlin", Die Rote Fahne, 14 January 1919.
3. **Then see to it that you remain a human being: being human is the main thing above all.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Letter to Mathilde Wurm, 28 December 1916.
4. **Being good is the main thing! Simply and plainly good — that resolves and binds everything and is better than all cleverness and self-righteousness.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Letter to Hans Diefenbach, 5 March 1917.
5. **I feel at home in the whole world, wherever there are clouds and birds and human tears.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Letter to Mathilde Wurm, 16 February 1917.
6. **That is life, and that is how one must take it: bravely, undaunted and smiling — in spite of everything.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Letter to Sonia Liebknecht, Breslau, December 1917.
7. **One must take everything, in public life as in private: calmly, generously and with a gentle smile.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Letter to Sonia Liebknecht, November 1917.
8. **Work — solid, intense work that absorbs you wholly, brain and nerves — is after all the greatest pleasure in life.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Letter to Mathilde and Robert Seidel, 30 December 1898.
9. **A woman's character shows not where love begins, but where it ends.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Letter to Mathilde Jacob, 9 April 1915.
10. **Self-criticism — ruthless, cruel self-criticism that goes to the root of things — is the breath and light of the proletarian movement.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The Crisis of Social Democracy (the "Junius Pamphlet", 1916).
11. **Dividends rise and proletarians fall.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The Crisis of Social Democracy (the "Junius Pamphlet", 1916).
12. **A world must be overturned, but every tear that has flowed when it could have been wiped away is an accusation.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Die Rote Fahne (1918).

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