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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.

Leon Trotsky

From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.
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Patriotic People Reality
Under all conditions, well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.
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Condition Distance Organization Point Violence
If you cannot convince a Fascist, acquaint his head with the pavement.
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Convince Head Yourself
In a country where the sole employer is the State, opposition means death by slow starvation. The old principle: who does not work shall not eat, has been replaced by a new one: who does not obey shall not eat.
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Country Employer Obedience Principle State
Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely.
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Complete Decision Force Necessary
The usages and methods of warfare are thus determined by changing circumstances and, therefore, they themselves can in nowise be eternal.
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Determination Forever Method Usage
The history of a revolution is for us first of all a history of the forcible entrance of the masses into the realm of rulership over their own destiny.
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Destiny Entrance Force History Revolution Rule
A means can be justified only by its end. But the end in its turn needs to be justified.
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End Justification Need
Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.
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Each Other Harmony Social
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
Our differences with [Joseph] Stalin are entirely of a strategical character.
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Character Difference Ourselves
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
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 creative union of the conscious with the unconscious is what one usually calls ‘inspiration.’
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Call Creativity Inspirational Union
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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History Individual Isolate Yourself
Against my protests a mausoleum was built on the Red Square, a monument unbecoming and offensive to the revolutionary consciousness.
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Conscious Protect Revolution

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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