One of the most surprising things in life is the sudden realization that one has become old.
LEON TROTSKYThe 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.
More Leon Trotsky Quotes
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Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government.
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The pillars of Hercules of the United States are vulgarity and stupidity.
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Our party’s most outstanding mediocrity.
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Fascism is a caricature of Jacobinism.
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The Soviet Union needs thinking and critical friends, such as are capable not only of singing hymns in the hours of success, but of not shrinking in the hour of defeat and danger.
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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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Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely.
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The fundamental flaw of vulgar thought lies in the fact that it wishes to content itself with motionless imprints of a reality which consists of eternal motion.
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Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction.
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Abusive language and swearing are a legacy of slavery, humiliation, and disrespect for human dignity, one’s own and that of other people.
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There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.
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The main task of Socialism – the organization of Socialist production – remains still in the future.
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Tell me anyway–Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies.
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There is no justice in bureaucracy for the individual, for bureaucracy caters only to itself. One cannot practice the same bureaucracy as one is fighting against.
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In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.
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