Under all conditions, well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.
LEON TROTSKYAs long as I breathe I hope. As long as I breathe I shall fight for the future, that radiant future, in which man, strong and beautiful, will become master of the drifting stream of his history and will direct it towards the boundless horizons of beauty, joy and happiness!
More Leon Trotsky Quotes
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Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravity.
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Tell me anyway–Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies.
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The struggle against war and its social source, capitalism, presupposes direct, active, unequivocal support to the oppressed colonial peoples in their struggles and wars against imperialism. A ‘neutral’ position is tantamount to support of imperialism.
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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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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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You may not be interested in strategy, but strategy is interested in you.
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In the appendix to my History of the Russian Revolution I give a detailed and documented study of the ideas of the Bolshevik party on the October revolution. This study, I hope, will make it impossible in the future to ascribe to [Vladimir] Lenin the theory of Socialism in a single country.
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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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Our planet is being turned into a filthy and evil-smelling imperialist barrack.
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The task of the proletariat is to create a still more powerful fatherland with a far greater power of resistance, the Republican United States of Europe, as the foundation of the United States of the World.
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As long as I breathe I hope. As long as I breathe I shall fight for the future, that radiant future, in which man, strong and beautiful, will become master of the drifting stream of his history and will direct it towards the boundless horizons of beauty, joy and happiness!
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Look back at history – those who guided the revolution in the time of its culmination never kept their leading positions long after the turning point.
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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 depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.
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The main task of Socialism – the organization of Socialist production – remains still in the future.
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Our differences with [Joseph] Stalin are entirely of a strategical character.
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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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Dialectical thought is related to vulgar thinking in the same way that a motion picture is related to a still photograph. The motion picture does not outlaw the still photograph but combines a series of them according to the laws of motion.
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Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
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Our party’s most outstanding mediocrity.
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The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence.
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Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction.
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One of the most surprising things in life is the sudden realization that one has become old.
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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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The motive force of history is truth and not lies.
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Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain – at least in a poor country like Russia – and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.
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