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Top 20 Clara Zetkin Quotes (2025 Update)

Clara Zetkin Quote: “What made women’s labour particularly attractive to the capitalists was not only its lower price but also the greater submissiveness of women.”

1. “What made women’s labour particularly attractive to the capitalists was not only its lower price but also the greater submissiveness of women.”

— Clara Zetkin

Clara Zetkin Quote: “When the men kill, it is up to us women to fight for the preservation of life.”

2. “When the men kill, it is up to us women to fight for the preservation of life.”

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Clara Zetkin Quote: “The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society.”

3. “The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society.”

— Clara Zetkin

Clara Zetkin Quote: “The capitalists speculate on the two following factors: the female worker must be paid as poorly as possible and the competition of female labour must be employed to lower the wages of male workers as much as possible.”

4. “The capitalists speculate on the two following factors: the female worker must be paid as poorly as possible and the competition of female labour must be employed to lower the wages of male workers as much as possible.”

— Clara Zetkin

Clara Zetkin Quote: “When the men are silent, it is our duty to raise our voices in behalf of our ideals.”

5. “When the men are silent, it is our duty to raise our voices in behalf of our ideals.”

— Clara Zetkin

Clara Zetkin Quote: “We would, however, perform an injustice to the bourgeois women’s rights movement if we would regard it as solely motivated by economics. No, this movement also contains a more profound spiritual and moral aspect.”

6. “We would, however, perform an injustice to the bourgeois women’s rights movement if we would regard it as solely motivated by economics. No, this movement also contains a more profound spiritual and moral aspect.”

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Clara Zetkin Quote: “Women’s propaganda must touch upon all those questions which are of great importance to the general proletarian movement. The main task is, indeed, to awaken the women’s class consciousness and to incorporate them into the class struggle.”

7. “Women’s propaganda must touch upon all those questions which are of great importance to the general proletarian movement. The main task is, indeed, to awaken the women’s class consciousness and to incorporate them into the class struggle.”

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Clara Zetkin Quote: “The machines, the modern mode of production, slowly undermined domestic production and not just for thousands but for millions of women the question arose: Where do we now find our livelihood?”

8. “The machines, the modern mode of production, slowly undermined domestic production and not just for thousands but for millions of women the question arose: Where do we now find our livelihood?”

— Clara Zetkin

Clara Zetkin Quote: “Each reform, therefore, improving the economical and political situation of the workers proves to be an arm that increases the energy with which the proletarian struggle of classes is fought.”

9. “Each reform, therefore, improving the economical and political situation of the workers proves to be an arm that increases the energy with which the proletarian struggle of classes is fought.”

— Clara Zetkin

Clara Zetkin Quote: “When a battle for suffrage is conducted, it should only be conducted according to socialist principles, and therefore with the demand of universal suffrage for women and men.”

10. “When a battle for suffrage is conducted, it should only be conducted according to socialist principles, and therefore with the demand of universal suffrage for women and men.”

— Clara Zetkin

Clara Zetkin Quote: “Given the fact that many thousands of female workers are active in history, it is vital for the trade unions to incorporate them into their movement.”

11. “Given the fact that many thousands of female workers are active in history, it is vital for the trade unions to incorporate them into their movement.”

— Clara Zetkin

Clara Zetkin Quote: “In individual industries where female labour pays an important role, any movement advocating better wages, shorter working hours, etc., would not be doomed from the start because of the attitude of those women workers who are not organized.”

12. “In individual industries where female labour pays an important role, any movement advocating better wages, shorter working hours, etc., would not be doomed from the start because of the attitude of those women workers who are not organized.”

— Clara Zetkin

Clara Zetkin Quote: “The most disastrous phenomenon of the current situation is the factor that imperialism is employing for its own ends all the powers of the proletariat, all of its institutions and weapons, which its fighting vanguard has created for its war of liberation.”

13. “The most disastrous phenomenon of the current situation is the factor that imperialism is employing for its own ends all the powers of the proletariat, all of its institutions and weapons, which its fighting vanguard has created for its war of liberation.”

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Clara Zetkin Quote: “The workers have nothing to gain from this war, but they stand to lose everything that is dear to them.”

14. “The workers have nothing to gain from this war, but they stand to lose everything that is dear to them.”

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Clara Zetkin Quote: “Social Democratic and trade union organs have approved of the illegal invasion of Belgium, of the massacre of suspected guerrillas, as well as their wives and children, as well as the destruction of their homes in various towns and districts.”

15. “Social Democratic and trade union organs have approved of the illegal invasion of Belgium, of the massacre of suspected guerrillas, as well as their wives and children, as well as the destruction of their homes in various towns and districts.”

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Clara Zetkin Quote: “For reforms ameliorate the situation of the working class, they lighten the weight of the chains labour is burdened with by capitalism, but they are not sufficient to crush capitalism and to emancipate the workers from their tyranny.”

16. “For reforms ameliorate the situation of the working class, they lighten the weight of the chains labour is burdened with by capitalism, but they are not sufficient to crush capitalism and to emancipate the workers from their tyranny.”

— Clara Zetkin

Clara Zetkin Quote: “Bourgeois society is not fundamentally opposed to the bourgeois women’s movement, which is proven by the fact that in various states reforms of private and public laws concerning women have been initiated.”

17. “Bourgeois society is not fundamentally opposed to the bourgeois women’s movement, which is proven by the fact that in various states reforms of private and public laws concerning women have been initiated.”

— Clara Zetkin

Clara Zetkin Quote: “What practical conclusions may we now draw for our propaganda work among women? The task of this Party Congress must not be to issue detailed practical suggestions, but to draw up general directions for the proletarian women’s movement.”

18. “What practical conclusions may we now draw for our propaganda work among women? The task of this Party Congress must not be to issue detailed practical suggestions, but to draw up general directions for the proletarian women’s movement.”

— Clara Zetkin

Clara Zetkin Quote: “Fascism is the punishment inflicted on the proletariat for not having continued the revolution begun in Russia.”

19. “Fascism is the punishment inflicted on the proletariat for not having continued the revolution begun in Russia.”

— Clara Zetkin

Clara Zetkin Quote: “When the men kill, it is up to us women to fight for the preservation of life. When the men are silent, it is our duty to raise our voices on behalf of our ideals.”

20. “When the men kill, it is up to us women to fight for the preservation of life. When the men are silent, it is our duty to raise our voices on behalf of our ideals.”

— Clara Zetkin

Clara Zetkin Quote: “When a proletarian then exclaims: “My wife!” he will add mentally, “Comrade of my ideals, companion of my battles, mother of my children for future battles.”

21. “When a proletarian then exclaims: “My wife!” he will add mentally, “Comrade of my ideals, companion of my battles, mother of my children for future battles.”

— Clara Zetkin

Clara Zetkin Quote: “Hundreds of thousands of working women who labour with their brains are just as much exploited by the action of capitalists and middle-men as the millions of women who work with their hands, because the whole capitalist class hangs together, and defends its interests.”

22. “Hundreds of thousands of working women who labour with their brains are just as much exploited by the action of capitalists and middle-men as the millions of women who work with their hands, because the whole capitalist class hangs together, and defends its interests.”

— Clara Zetkin

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