Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.
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.
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It is quite clear that the German and Chinese revolutions in case of victory would have changed the face of Europe and Asia, and perhaps of the whole world.
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Our party’s most outstanding mediocrity.
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You may not be interested in strategy, but strategy is interested in you.
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He who slanders the victim aids the executioner.
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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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I emphasized the significance of revolutionary strategy.
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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 we close our eyes to the dark sides of the workers’ State which we have helped to create, we shall never reach socialism.
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Under all conditions, well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.
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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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The motive force of history is truth and not lies.
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Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.
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From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.
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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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The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
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