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.
LEON TROTSKY
The creative union of the conscious with the unconscious is what one usually calls ‘inspiration.’
More Leon Trotsky Quotes
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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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If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.
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As long as human labor power, and, consequently, life itself, remain articles of sale and purchase, of exploitation and robbery, the principle of the “sacredness of human life” remains a shameful lie, uttered with the object of keeping the oppressed slaves in their chains.
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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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Root out the counter revolutionaries without mercy, lock up suspicious characters in concentration camps… Shirkers will be shot, regardless of past service.
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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 end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
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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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A means can be justified only by its end. But the end in its turn needs to be justified.
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Under all conditions, well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.
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Communism needs democracy like the human body needs oxygen.
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Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction.
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Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.
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The revenge of history is more powerful than the revenge of the most powerful General Secretary.
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Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely.
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