Our differences with [Joseph] Stalin are entirely of a strategical character.
LEON TROTSKYThe creative union of the conscious with the unconscious is what one usually calls ‘inspiration.’
More Leon Trotsky Quotes
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Let us not forget that revolutions are accomplished through people, although they be nameless. Materialism does not ignore the feeling, thinking, and acting man, but explains him.
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Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely.
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If you cannot convince a Fascist, acquaint his head with the pavement.
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There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.
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Revolutions are always verbose.
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It is also false that the revolution ripens and comes to development only in the national soil.
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The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence.
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Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
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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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Is it possible to fulfill this task, is it possible to achieve the definite victory of Socialism in one country without the combined efforts of the proletarians of several advanced countries? No, it is impossible.
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In inner-party politics, these methods lead, as we shall yet see, to this: the party organization substitutes itself for the party, the central committee substitutes itself for the organization, and, finally, a dictator substitutes himself for the central committee.
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Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government.
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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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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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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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