The creative union of the conscious with the unconscious is what one usually calls ‘inspiration.’
LEON TROTSKYThe 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.
More Leon Trotsky Quotes
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Where the sole employer is the state, [opposition] means death by slow starvation.
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Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.
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Fascism is a caricature of Jacobinism.
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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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Our party’s most outstanding mediocrity.
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Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely.
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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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Root out the counter revolutionaries without mercy, lock up suspicious characters in concentration camps… Shirkers will be shot, regardless of past service.
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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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Tell me anyway–Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies.
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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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Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravity.
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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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Communism needs democracy like the human body needs oxygen.
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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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