Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.
LEON TROTSKYIdeas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.
More Leon Trotsky Quotes
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You may not be interested in strategy, but strategy is interested in you.
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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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When one runs with the wolves, one must howl with the pack.
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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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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 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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Our planet is being turned into a filthy and evil-smelling imperialist barrack.
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The United States is not only the strongest, but also the most terrified country.
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Let us not forget that revolutions are accomplished through people, although they be nameless. Materialism does not ignore the feeling, thinking, and acting man, but explains him.
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Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
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Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.
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Fascism is a caricature of Jacobinism.
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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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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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A means can be justified only by its end. But the end in its turn needs to be justified.
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The revolution has its own laws: in the period of its culmination it pushes the most highly developed, determined and far-seeing stratum of the revolutionary class to the most advanced positions.
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There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.
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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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I emphasized the significance of revolutionary strategy.
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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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I feel here that this time they have succeeded.
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Everyone has a right to be stupid, but Comrade MacDonald abuses the privilege.
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If we close our eyes to the dark sides of the workers’ State which we have helped to create, we shall never reach socialism.
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The creative union of the conscious with the unconscious is what one usually calls ‘inspiration.’
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Communism needs democracy like the human body needs oxygen.
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The theory of the permanent revolution, in contradiction to the theory of socialism in one country, was recognized by the entire Bolshevik party during the period from 1917 to 1923.
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