Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.
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Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.
LEON TROTSKYTell me anyway–Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies.
LEON TROTSKYLearning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one’s enemies.
LEON TROTSKYFascism is nothing but capitalist reaction.
LEON TROTSKYYou may not be interested in strategy, but strategy is interested in you.
LEON TROTSKYAgainst my protests a mausoleum was built on the Red Square, a monument unbecoming and offensive to the revolutionary consciousness.
LEON TROTSKYThe 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.
LEON TROTSKYWhere 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 TROTSKYReligions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government.
LEON TROTSKYLet 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.
LEON TROTSKYThe 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.
LEON TROTSKYAbusive language and swearing are a legacy of slavery, humiliation, and disrespect for human dignity, one’s own and that of other people.
LEON TROTSKYIn 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.
LEON TROTSKYRevolutionary 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.
LEON TROTSKYOld age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
LEON TROTSKYIt is also false that the revolution ripens and comes to development only in the national soil.
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