Our party’s most outstanding mediocrity.
LEON TROTSKYIn 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.
More Leon Trotsky Quotes
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Life is not an easy matter… You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.
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The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence.
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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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Capitalism does live by crises and booms, just as a human being lives by inhaling and exhaling.
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The United States is not only the strongest, but also the most terrified country.
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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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I feel here that this time they have succeeded.
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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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The pillars of Hercules of the United States are vulgarity and stupidity.
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There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.
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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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If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.
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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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Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government.
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Where the sole employer is the state, [opposition] means death by slow starvation.
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