To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet.


Karl Jaspers

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The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole wor...
KARL LIEBKNECHT
Long live the liberation of the workers off all countries from the infernal chasm of war, exploitati...
KARL LIEBKNECHT
Through this experience we have been warned - learn everything, don't forget anything!
KARL LIEBKNECHT
The new Germany has the unquestionable right to hold its tongue between its teeth.
KARL LIEBKNECHT
Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
KARL LIEBKNECHT
Incendiary capitalism is carrying its out evil works more dangerously than ever, and is doing so in ...
KARL LIEBKNECHT
Class struggle: external peace, international solidarity, peace among peoples. This is the sacred sl...
KARL LIEBKNECHT
The Russian revolution was to an unprecedented degree the cause of the proletariat of the whole worl...
KARL LIEBKNECHT
Consider well this fact: As long as the German people does not arise and use force directed by its o...
KARL LIEBKNECHT
The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I.
KARL LIEBKNECHT
In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would h...
KARL LIEBKNECHT
For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business.
KARL LIEBKNECHT
Imperialism is not the creation of any one or any one group of states.
KARL LIEBKNECHT
But Socialism, alone, can bring self-determination of their peoples.
KARL LIEBKNECHT
The aim of my life is the overthrow of monarchy.
KARL LIEBKNECHT
Capitalism is war; socialism is peace.
KARL LIEBKNECHT
There's always the tendency to transform the Church into an ethical agency, and of measuring the...
KARL LEHMANN
The Synod of Bishops has existed for forty years. In that long span of time it has been for all of u...
KARL LEHMANN
I believe that Orthodoxy has been thinking lately, and despite other impressions, that we can't ...
KARL LEHMANN
For the future, I would suggest avoiding subjects of too vast a scale. It would be useful to make ou...
KARL LEHMANN
Christians who have influence in political life must feel as individuals responsibility in front of ...
KARL LEHMANN
But when one identifies the Church with a cultural and political bloc, there is the danger of making...
KARL LEHMANN
The mission proper to the Church is that of proclaiming the Gospel.
KARL LEHMANN
Common participation in the Eucharist can only be a final outcome of ecumenic dialogue, not the star...
KARL LEHMANN
It is very kind of you to consider the possibility of my working in Pasadena, an idea which certainl...
KARL LANDSTEINER
Owing to the difficulty of dealing with substances of high molecular weight we are still a long way ...
KARL LANDSTEINER
Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.
KARL LAGERFELD
I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.
KARL LAGERFELD
The importance of logo into today's fashion is un! be! Lievable!
KARL LAGERFELD
The first thing I do when I get up, I have breakfast.
KARL LAGERFELD
I don't care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.
KARL LAGERFELD
Don't dress to kill, dress to survive.
KARL LAGERFELD
What I love best in life is new starts.
KARL LAGERFELD
My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn't dare do themselves.
KARL LAGERFELD
I do my job like I breathe.
KARL LAGERFELD
T-shirts for ten dollars are even more fashion today than expensive fashion.
KARL LAGERFELD
Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.
KARL LAGERFELD
The brain is a muscle, and I'm a kind of body-builder.
KARL LAGERFELD