Under all conditions, well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.
LEON TROTSKYThe pillars of Hercules of the United States are vulgarity and stupidity.
More Leon Trotsky Quotes
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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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Capitalism does live by crises and booms, just as a human being lives by inhaling and exhaling.
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In a country where the sole employer is the State, opposition means death by slow starvation. The old principle: who does not work shall not eat, has been replaced by a new one: who does not obey shall not eat.
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All the parties of capitalist society, all its moralists and all its sycophants will perish beneath the debris of the impending catastrophe. The only party that will survive is the party of the world socialist revolution.
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The revenge of history is more powerful than the revenge of the most powerful General Secretary.
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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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The usages and methods of warfare are thus determined by changing circumstances and, therefore, they themselves can in nowise be eternal.
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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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A means can be justified only by its end. But the end in its turn needs to be justified.
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In 1917 there was not a single Bolshevik who considered possible the realization of a socialist society in a single country, and least of all in Russia.
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As long as human labor power, and, consequently, life itself, remain articles of sale and purchase, of exploitation and robbery, the principle of the “sacredness of human life” remains a shameful lie, uttered with the object of keeping the oppressed slaves in their chains.
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The United States is not only the strongest, but also the most terrified country.
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Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government.
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The Soviet Union needs thinking and critical friends, such as are capable not only of singing hymns in the hours of success, but of not shrinking in the hour of defeat and danger.
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Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.
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Tell me anyway–Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies.
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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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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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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 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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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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With all due respect to all philistines, the dictatorship of the proletariat does just consist in “giving a hiding” to the classes that were previously supreme, before forcing them to recognize the new order and to submit to it.
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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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Our planet is being turned into a filthy and evil-smelling imperialist barrack.
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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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