From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.
LEON TROTSKYAbusive language and swearing are a legacy of slavery, humiliation, and disrespect for human dignity, one’s own and that of other people.
More Leon Trotsky Quotes
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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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The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces – in nature, in society, in man himself.
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Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
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The pillars of Hercules of the United States are vulgarity and stupidity.
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Everyone has a right to be stupid, but Comrade MacDonald abuses the privilege.
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Where the sole employer is the state, [opposition] means death by slow starvation.
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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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The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
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Nowhere else did repressions, purges, suppressions, and all other kinds of bureaucratic hooliganism in general acquire such horrifying scope as in Ukraine, in the struggle against powerful forces concealed in the Ukrainian masses that desired more freedom and independence.
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Root out the counter revolutionaries without mercy, lock up suspicious characters in concentration camps… Shirkers will be shot, regardless of past service.
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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 dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence.
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The party that leans upon the workers but serves the bourgeoisie, in the period of the greatest sharpening of the class struggle, cannot but sense the smells wafted from the waiting grave.
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Our party’s most outstanding mediocrity.
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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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Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a maneuver, a blow with an agreement.
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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 main task of Socialism – the organization of Socialist production – remains still in the future.
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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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He who slanders the victim aids the executioner.
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Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.
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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 force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely.
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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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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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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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