When one runs with the wolves, one must howl with the pack.
LEON TROTSKYIf we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.
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If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.
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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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Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.
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The main task of Socialism – the organization of Socialist production – remains still in the future.
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The motive force of history is truth and not lies.
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Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravity.
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To overthrow the power of the bourgeoisie and to establish the power of the proletariat in one country still does not signify the full victory of Socialism.
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Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely.
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Against my protests a mausoleum was built on the Red Square, a monument unbecoming and offensive to the revolutionary consciousness.
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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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Our differences with [Joseph] Stalin are entirely of a strategical character.
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Where the sole employer is the state, [opposition] means death by slow starvation.
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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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The theory of the permanent revolution, in contradiction to the theory of socialism in one country, was recognized by the entire Bolshevik party during the period from 1917 to 1923.
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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 you cannot convince a Fascist, acquaint his head with the pavement.
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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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Revolutions are always verbose.
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Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government.
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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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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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He who slanders the victim aids the executioner.
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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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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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Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction.
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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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