Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government.
LEON TROTSKYThere 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.
More Leon Trotsky Quotes
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The party that leans upon the workers but serves the bourgeoisie, in the period of the greatest sharpening of the class struggle, cannot but sense the smells wafted from the waiting grave.
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With all due respect to all philistines, the dictatorship of the proletariat does just consist in “giving a hiding” to the classes that were previously supreme, before forcing them to recognize the new order and to submit to it.
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Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.
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The fall of the present bureaucratic dictatorship [in the Soviet Union], if it were not replaced by a new socialist power, would thus mean a return to capitalist relations with a catastrophic decline of industry and culture.
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Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravity.
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Communism needs democracy like the human body needs oxygen.
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As long as human labor power, and, consequently, life itself, remain articles of sale and purchase, of exploitation and robbery, the principle of the “sacredness of human life” remains a shameful lie, uttered with the object of keeping the oppressed slaves in their chains.
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The struggle against war and its social source, capitalism, presupposes direct, active, unequivocal support to the oppressed colonial peoples in their struggles and wars against imperialism. A ‘neutral’ position is tantamount to support of imperialism.
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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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Tell me anyway–Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies.
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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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From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.
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You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on – into the dustbin of history!
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Without a correct strategy the victory is impossible. But even the most correct strategy cannot give the victory under unfavorable objective conditions.
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If we close our eyes to the dark sides of the workers’ State which we have helped to create, we shall never reach socialism.
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Under all conditions, well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.
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He who slanders the victim aids the executioner.
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Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction.
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You may not be interested in strategy, but strategy is interested in you.
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Our planet is being turned into a filthy and evil-smelling imperialist barrack.
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The revenge of history is more powerful than the revenge of the most powerful General Secretary.
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England is nothing but the last ward of the European madhouse, and quite possibly it will prove to be the ward for particularly violent cases.
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The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence.
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I emphasized the significance of revolutionary strategy.
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In a country where the sole employer is the State, opposition means death by slow starvation. The old principle: who does not work shall not eat, has been replaced by a new one: who does not obey shall not eat.
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When one runs with the wolves, one must howl with the pack.
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