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.
LEON TROTSKYNot believing in force is the same as not believing in gravity.
More Leon Trotsky Quotes
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The motive force of history is truth and not lies.
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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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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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Revolutions are always verbose.
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Communism needs democracy like the human body needs oxygen.
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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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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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You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on – into the dustbin of history!
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Everyone has a right to be stupid, but Comrade MacDonald abuses the privilege.
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Under all conditions, well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.
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Our planet is being turned into a filthy and evil-smelling imperialist barrack.
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Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
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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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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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Our party’s most outstanding mediocrity.
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