Dialectical thought is related to vulgar thinking in the same way that a motion picture is related to a still photograph. The motion picture does not outlaw the still photograph but combines a series of them according to the laws of motion.
LEON TROTSKYAll the parties of capitalist society, all its moralists and all its sycophants will perish beneath the debris of the impending catastrophe. The only party that will survive is the party of the world socialist revolution.
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Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression, and violence, and enjoy it to the full.
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There is a limit to the application of democratic methods. You can inquire of all the passengers as to what type of car they like to ride in, but it is impossible to question them as to whether to apply the brakes when the train is at full speed and accident threatens.
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Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely.
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A means can be justified only by its end. But the end in its turn needs to be justified.
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Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.
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Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.
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The people will have the right to elect their representatives from a list of candidates [who have been approved by the Party].
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The main task of Socialism – the organization of Socialist production – remains still in the future.
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In spite of the existence of the Soviet Union, however, the proletarian revolution during the past years has not recorded a victory in any other country.
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Is it possible to fulfill this task, is it possible to achieve the definite victory of Socialism in one country without the combined efforts of the proletarians of several advanced countries? No, it is impossible.
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If you cannot convince a Fascist, acquaint his head with the pavement.
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The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
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When one runs with the wolves, one must howl with the pack.
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The usages and methods of warfare are thus determined by changing circumstances and, therefore, they themselves can in nowise be eternal.
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All the parties of capitalist society, all its moralists and all its sycophants will perish beneath the debris of the impending catastrophe. The only party that will survive is the party of the world socialist revolution.
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In France, the leader of Jacobinism perished on the guillotine; with us, the change of leadership was achieved by means of arrest and banishment. The technique of the process is gentler, but its essence is the same.
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From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.
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Communism needs democracy like the human body needs oxygen.
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The United States is not only the strongest, but also the most terrified country.
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Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a maneuver, a blow with an agreement.
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Nowhere else did repressions, purges, suppressions, and all other kinds of bureaucratic hooliganism in general acquire such horrifying scope as in Ukraine, in the struggle against powerful forces concealed in the Ukrainian masses that desired more freedom and independence.
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The creative union of the conscious with the unconscious is what one usually calls ‘inspiration.’
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Revolutionary realism tries to draw the maximum advantage from every situation – that is what makes it revolutionary – but at the same time it does not permit us to set ourselves fantastic aims – that is what makes it realistic.
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Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.
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Our differences with [Joseph] Stalin are entirely of a strategical character.
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Our party’s most outstanding mediocrity.
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