One of the most surprising things in life is the sudden realization that one has become old.
LEON TROTSKYWhere the sole employer is the state, [opposition] means death by slow starvation.
More Leon Trotsky Quotes
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Under all conditions, well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.
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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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When one runs with the wolves, one must howl with the pack.
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Our party’s most outstanding mediocrity.
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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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The history of a revolution is for us first of all a history of the forcible entrance of the masses into the realm of rulership over their own destiny.
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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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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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The United States is not only the strongest, but also the most terrified country.
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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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The creative union of the conscious with the unconscious is what one usually calls ‘inspiration.’
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If you cannot convince a Fascist, acquaint his head with the pavement.
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In inner-party politics, these methods lead, as we shall yet see, to this: the party organization substitutes itself for the party, the central committee substitutes itself for the organization, and, finally, a dictator substitutes himself for the central committee.
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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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If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.
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