Tell me anyway–Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies.
LEON TROTSKYIt is also false that the revolution ripens and comes to development only in the national soil.
More Leon Trotsky Quotes
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Life is not an easy matter… You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.
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Where the sole employer is the state, [opposition] means death by slow starvation.
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Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.
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Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.
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It is also false that the revolution ripens and comes to development only in the national soil.
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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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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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When one runs with the wolves, one must howl with the pack.
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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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Our differences with [Joseph] Stalin are entirely of a strategical character.
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Everyone has a right to be stupid, but Comrade MacDonald abuses the privilege.
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Our planet is being turned into a filthy and evil-smelling imperialist barrack.
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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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Revolutions are always verbose.
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If you cannot convince a Fascist, acquaint his head with the pavement.
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The pillars of Hercules of the United States are vulgarity and stupidity.
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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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From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.
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Only in the Fall of 1924 did [Joseph] Stalin discover that it is especially Russia, as distinguished from other countries, which can by its own forces build up a socialist society.
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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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In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.
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Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.
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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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If one cannot get along without a mirror, even in shaving oneself, how can one reconstruct oneself or one’s life, without seeing oneself in the “mirror” of literature?
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Once again, he who ignores the problems of revolutionary strategy would do better not to talk about revolutions at all.
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The creative union of the conscious with the unconscious is what one usually calls ‘inspiration.’
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