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 The old principle: who does not work shall not eat, has been replaced by a new one: who does not obey shall not eat.
LEON TROTSKYThe creative union of the conscious with the unconscious is what one usually calls ‘inspiration.’
More Leon Trotsky Quotes
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Our differences with [Joseph] Stalin are entirely of a strategical character.
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Everyone has a right to be stupid, but Comrade MacDonald abuses the privilege.
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Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.
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Our planet is being turned into a filthy and evil-smelling imperialist barrack.
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The United States is not only the strongest, but also the most terrified country.
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Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.
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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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If one cannot get along without a mirror, even in shaving oneself, how can one reconstruct oneself or one’s life, without seeing oneself in the “mirror” of literature?
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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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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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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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Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction.
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Look back at history – those who guided the revolution in the time of its culmination never kept their leading positions long after the turning point.
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I emphasized the significance of revolutionary strategy.
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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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