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.
LEON TROTSKYNot believing in force is the same as not believing in gravity.
More Leon Trotsky Quotes
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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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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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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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Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government.
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Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravity.
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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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The revenge of history is more powerful than the revenge of the most powerful General Secretary.
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Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.
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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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In spite of the existence of the Soviet Union, however, the proletarian revolution during the past years has not recorded a victory in any other country.
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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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The main task of Socialism – the organization of Socialist production – remains still in the future.
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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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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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Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.
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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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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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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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If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.
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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 pillars of Hercules of the United States are vulgarity and stupidity.
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Our planet is being turned into a filthy and evil-smelling imperialist barrack.
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The motive force of history is truth and not lies.
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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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