AUGUST BEBEL

Anti-Semitism is the Socialism of fools.

When socialism comes into power, the Roman Church will advocate socialism with the same vigor [with which] it is now favoring feudalism and slavery.

Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization.

Christianity is the enemy of liberty and of civilization. It has kept mankind in chains.

A wife is sold into the hands of her husband and must endure his embraces though she may have a hundred causes to hate and abominate him.

The field of politics always presents the same struggle. There are the Right and the Left, and in the middle is the Swamp. The Swamp is made up of know-nothings, of them who are without ideas, of them who are always with the majority.

We aim in the domain of politics at republicanism; in the domain of economics at socialism; in the domain of what is today called religion, at atheism.

Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization. It has kept mankind in slavery and oppression. The Church and the State have always fraternally united to exploit the people.

All political questions, all matters of right, are at bottom only questions of might.

Then comes the catastrophe. Then the great mobilization will take place in Europe; 16-18 million men, the flower of the various nations, armed with the best tools of death, will enter the field as enemies. But, I am convinced, that behind the great mobilization there stands the great havoc. It will not come through our party, but rather yours. You are driving things to the limit. You are leading us to catastrophe. You will reap what you have sown

We aim in the domain of politics at republicanism; in the domain of economics at socialism; in the domain of what is today called religion, at atheism.

Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization.

Anti-Semitism is the Socialism of fools.

Christianity is the enemy of liberty and of civilization. It has kept mankind in chains.

All political questions, all matters of right, are at bottom only questions of might.

The field of politics always presents the same struggle. There are the Right and the Left, and in the middle is the Swamp. The Swamp is made up of know-nothings, of them who are without ideas, of them who are always with the majority.

When socialism comes into power, the Roman Church will advocate socialism with the same vigor [with which] it is now favoring feudalism and slavery.

Then comes the catastrophe. Then the great mobilization will take place in Europe; 16-18 million men, the flower of the various nations, armed with the best tools of death, will enter the field as enemies. But, I am convinced, that behind the great mobilization there stands the great havoc. It will not come through our party, but rather yours. You are driving things to the limit. You are leading us to catastrophe. You will reap what you have sown

Woman was the first human being that tasted bondage. Woman was a slave before the slave existed.

Every socialist recognizes the dependence of the workingman on the capitalist.

Americans have made the common sense discovery that it is inefficient for women to bake their own bread and brew their own beer when the lot can be produced more cheaply by the cooperative cooking establishment.

A wife is sold into the hands of her husband and must endure his embraces though she may have a hundred causes to hate and abominate him.

Every nation will continue to arm for war until a day comes at which one or the other says, “Better a terrible end, than a terror without end” or “If we delay any longer, we shall be the weaker instead of the stronger”. Then the catastrophe will happen.

Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization. It has kept mankind in slavery and oppression. The Church and the State have always fraternally united to exploit the people.