Karl Liebknecht Quotes
Class struggle: external peace, international solidarity, peace among peoples. This is the sacred slogan of international socialist democracy that liberates nations.
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I joined a radical group at the age of 16 because I'm a passionate man; the good news is that I turned myself around since then. But my character is still quite free and passionate.
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I have a family to support. And I'm not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do.
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I throw ideas out into the open when I really should just be writing them down in a journal.
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All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities... the list goes on!
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Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates.
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If I had had a chance to tour with Van Halen before the record, I think it would have been a different record.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White House.
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Just look at what is right in front of you. People don't do that. They see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see. They only hear the music and not the lyrics of human events.
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We've got great fans that rock and roll won't have, because you can have a one-hit record and country music used to, not so much anymore and you have a fan forever.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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I've achieved more than some people do in a lifetime, but it doesn't mean I've done it all.
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I'm trying to sell every audience something; that something is me.
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Most Americans probably have no idea how hostile anti-abortion sidewalk counseling outside clinics can be. There's a reason pro-choicers volunteer to escort patients as they make their way past angry crowds to the clinic door.
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Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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I still find it hard to believe that the whole era of jazz is over.
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Friends are not made, but recognized.
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The Internet has democratized content, and the gatekeepers are no longer in control. That democracy is wonderful for entrepreneurs.
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...and was disposed too often to idealize as a virtue that habit of mean subservience to wealth and social position which, after more than half a century of political democracy, is still the characteristic and odious vice of the Englishman.
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It is true that authoritarian governments increasingly see the internet as a threat in part because they see the US government behind the internet. It would not be accurate to say they are reacting to the threat posed by the internet, they are reacting to the threat poised by United States via the internet. They are not reacting against blogs, or Facebook or Twitter per se, they are reacting against organizations like the National Endowment for Democracy funding bloggers and activists.
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Most fears are basic: fear of the dark, fear of going down in the basement, fear of weird sounds, fear that somebody is waiting for you in your closet. Those kinds of things stay with you no matter what age.
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Class struggle: external peace, international solidarity, peace among peoples. This is the sacred slogan of international socialist democracy that liberates nations.
