Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
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.
More Leon Trotsky Quotes
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The usages and methods of warfare are thus determined by changing circumstances and, therefore, they themselves can in nowise be eternal.
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Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.
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Tell me anyway–Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies.
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The creative union of the conscious with the unconscious is what one usually calls ‘inspiration.’
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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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The motive force of history is truth and not lies.
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The theory of the permanent revolution, in contradiction to the theory of socialism in one country, was recognized by the entire Bolshevik party during the period from 1917 to 1923.
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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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Life is not an easy matter… You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.
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There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.
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From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.
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With all due respect to all philistines, the dictatorship of the proletariat does just consist in “giving a hiding” to the classes that were previously supreme, before forcing them to recognize the new order and to submit to it.
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In 1917 there was not a single Bolshevik who considered possible the realization of a socialist society in a single country, and least of all in Russia.
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Once again, he who ignores the problems of revolutionary strategy would do better not to talk about revolutions at all.
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