Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravity.
LEON TROTSKY
A means can be justified only by its end. But the end in its turn needs to be justified.
More Leon Trotsky Quotes
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Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravity.
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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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The United States is not only the strongest, but also the most terrified country.
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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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Tell me anyway–Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies.
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Once again, he who ignores the problems of revolutionary strategy would do better not to talk about revolutions at all.
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Where the sole employer is the state, [opposition] means death by slow starvation.
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Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
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Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.
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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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If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.
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Our planet is being turned into a filthy and evil-smelling imperialist barrack.
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Dialectical thought is related to vulgar thinking in the same way that a motion picture is related to a still photograph. The motion picture does not outlaw the still photograph but combines a series of them according to the laws of motion.
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Only in the Fall of 1924 did [Joseph] Stalin discover that it is especially Russia, as distinguished from other countries, which can by its own forces build up a socialist society.
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It is quite clear that the German and Chinese revolutions in case of victory would have changed the face of Europe and Asia, and perhaps of the whole world.
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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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