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Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government.

Leon Trotsky

In France, the leader of Jacobinism perished on the guillotine; with us, the change of leadership was achieved by means of arrest and banishment. The technique of the process is gentler, but its essence is the same.
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Banishment Essence Leadership Name
The motive force of history is truth and not lies.
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Force History Man Motive
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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Law Motion Photograph Relate Thinking
It is also false that the revolution ripens and comes to development only in the national soil.
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Development Fake National Revolution
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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Beautiful Full Future Generation Life Oppression Violence
The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence.
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Communist Form Maintain Violence
He who slanders the victim aids the executioner.
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Execution Victim
It is quite clear that the German and Chinese revolutions in case of victory would have changed the face of Europe and Asia, and perhaps of the whole world.
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Clear Oneself Quite Revolution World
Abusive language and swearing are a legacy of slavery, humiliation, and disrespect for human dignity, one’s own and that of other people.
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Humiliation Language Oneself People Swear
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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Fight Government Individual Justice Practice
The creative union of the conscious with the unconscious is what one usually calls ‘inspiration.’
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Call Creativity Inspirational Union
The main task of Socialism – the organization of Socialist production – remains still in the future.
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Future Organization Socialism Task
One of the most surprising things in life is the sudden realization that one has become old.
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Life Old Oneself Realize Surprise
Our differences with [Joseph] Stalin are entirely of a strategical character.
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Character Difference Ourselves
Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one’s enemies.
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Carry Dangerous Enemy Learning
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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Literature Mirror Shave

Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government.

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