Rosa Luxemburg's most famous quotes
The top 3 according to 4 votes from people: Freedom is always the freedom of the one who thinks differently. · I was, I am, I shall be! · Then see to it that you remain a human being: being human is the main thing above all.. (Updated Mar 6, 2020.)
"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.
Automatically translated (original in Deutsch). See the original
Top 12
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Freedom is always the freedom of the one who thinks differently.
The Russian Revolution (1918, published 1922).
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I was, I am, I shall be!
"Order Prevails in Berlin", Die Rote Fahne, 14 January 1919.
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Then see to it that you remain a human being: being human is the main thing above all.
Letter to Mathilde Wurm, 28 December 1916.
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Being good is the main thing! Simply and plainly good — that resolves and binds everything and is better than all cleverness and self-righteousness.
Letter to Hans Diefenbach, 5 March 1917.
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5
I feel at home in the whole world, wherever there are clouds and birds and human tears.
Letter to Mathilde Wurm, 16 February 1917.
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That is life, and that is how one must take it: bravely, undaunted and smiling — in spite of everything.
Letter to Sonia Liebknecht, Breslau, December 1917.
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One must take everything, in public life as in private: calmly, generously and with a gentle smile.
Letter to Sonia Liebknecht, November 1917.
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Work — solid, intense work that absorbs you wholly, brain and nerves — is after all the greatest pleasure in life.
Letter to Mathilde and Robert Seidel, 30 December 1898.
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A woman's character shows not where love begins, but where it ends.
Letter to Mathilde Jacob, 9 April 1915.
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Self-criticism — ruthless, cruel self-criticism that goes to the root of things — is the breath and light of the proletarian movement.
The Crisis of Social Democracy (the "Junius Pamphlet", 1916).
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11
Dividends rise and proletarians fall.
The Crisis of Social Democracy (the "Junius Pamphlet", 1916).
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12
A world must be overturned, but every tear that has flowed when it could have been wiped away is an accusation.
Die Rote Fahne (1918).
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