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A means can be justified only by its end. But the end in its turn needs to be justified.

Leon Trotsky

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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Capital Catastrophe Moral Party Revolution Social Society Survive
When one runs with the wolves, one must howl with the pack.
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Run Togetherness Wolf
Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.
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Art Law
In 1917 there was not a single Bolshevik who considered possible the realization of a socialist society in a single country, and least of all in Russia.
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Country Possible Realization Social
The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
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End Justification Philosophy
The main task of Socialism – the organization of Socialist production – remains still in the future.
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Future Organization Socialism Task
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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Particular Possible Quite Violence
The people will have the right to elect their representatives from a list of candidates [who have been approved by the Party].
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Candidate Election People Right
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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Condition Custom Depth Moral Reserve Strength
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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Capable Criticism Dangerous Defeat Thinking
Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.
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Change Endurance Relative World
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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Age Expression Fantasy Modern Ourselves Success Triumph
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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Country Existence Record Revolution
He who slanders the victim aids the executioner.
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Execution Victim
The revenge of history is more powerful than the revenge of the most powerful General Secretary.
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History Powerful Revenge Secretary
The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence.
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Communist Form Maintain Violence
The United States is not only the strongest, but also the most terrified country.
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Country Fear State Strong Terrify
If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.
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Discussion Greatness Mistake Time
Workers – men and women – of all countries, place yourselves under the banner of the Fourth International. It is the banner of your approaching victory!
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Man Place Victory Woman Work
Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction.
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Capital Fascism One Liner Reaction
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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Banishment Essence Leadership Name
Our differences with [Joseph] Stalin are entirely of a strategical character.
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Character Difference Ourselves
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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Establishment Power Socialism Victory
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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Country Effect Finding Man Production Vehicle
Revolutions are always verbose.
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One Liner Revolution
Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.
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Each Other Harmony Social
The creative union of the conscious with the unconscious is what one usually calls ‘inspiration.’
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Call Creativity Inspirational Union

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