The motive force of history is truth and not lies.
LEON TROTSKYLife is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression, and violence, and enjoy it to the full.
More Leon Trotsky Quotes
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The revenge of history is more powerful than the revenge of the most powerful General Secretary.
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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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The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
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From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.
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Workers – men and women – of all countries, place yourselves under the banner of the Fourth International. It is the banner of your approaching victory!
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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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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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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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In spite of the existence of the Soviet Union, however, the proletarian revolution during the past years has not recorded a victory in any other country.
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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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The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence.
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Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression, and violence, and enjoy it to the full.
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Under all conditions, well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.
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When one runs with the wolves, one must howl with the pack.
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Is it possible to fulfill this task, is it possible to achieve the definite victory of Socialism in one country without the combined efforts of the proletarians of several advanced countries? No, it is impossible.
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