I emphasized the significance of revolutionary strategy.
LEON TROTSKYThe revenge of history is more powerful than the revenge of the most powerful General Secretary.
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In inner-party politics, these methods lead, as we shall yet see, to this: the party organization substitutes itself for the party, the central committee substitutes itself for the organization, and, finally, a dictator substitutes himself for the central committee.
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There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.
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Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely.
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Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.
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Our party’s most outstanding mediocrity.
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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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City of prose and fantasy, of capitalist automation, its streets a triumph of cubism, its moral philosophy that of the dollar. New York impressed me tremendously because, more than any other city, it is the fullest expression of our modern age.
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Tell me anyway–Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies.
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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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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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Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.
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He who slanders the victim aids the executioner.
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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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Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one’s enemies.
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Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravity.
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Under all conditions, well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.
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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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The motive force of history is truth and not lies.
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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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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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England is nothing but the last ward of the European madhouse, and quite possibly it will prove to be the ward for particularly violent cases.
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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.
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From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.
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The United States is not only the strongest, but also the most terrified country.
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Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
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