The motive force of history is truth and not lies.
LEON TROTSKYNot believing in force is the same as not believing in gravity.
More Leon Trotsky Quotes
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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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Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
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Against my protests a mausoleum was built on the Red Square, a monument unbecoming and offensive to the revolutionary consciousness.
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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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Capitalism does live by crises and booms, just as a human being lives by inhaling and exhaling.
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Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction.
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Revolutionary realism tries to draw the maximum advantage from every situation – that is what makes it revolutionary – but at the same time it does not permit us to set ourselves fantastic aims – that is what makes it realistic.
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From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.
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Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one’s enemies.
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The revenge of history is more powerful than the revenge of the most powerful General Secretary.
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In the appendix to my History of the Russian Revolution I give a detailed and documented study of the ideas of the Bolshevik party on the October revolution. This study, I hope, will make it impossible in the future to ascribe to [Vladimir] Lenin the theory of Socialism in a single country.
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The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.
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Under all conditions, well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.
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Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely.
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Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.
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