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?
LEON TROTSKYOld age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
More Leon Trotsky Quotes
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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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There is a limit to the application of democratic methods. You can inquire of all the passengers as to what type of car they like to ride in, but it is impossible to question them as to whether to apply the brakes when the train is at full speed and accident threatens.
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Our differences with [Joseph] Stalin are entirely of a strategical character.
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Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction.
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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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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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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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In the appendix to my History of the Russian Revolution I give a detailed and documented study of the ideas of the Bolshevik party on the October revolution. This study, I hope, will make it impossible in the future to ascribe to [Vladimir] Lenin the theory of Socialism in a single country.
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Where the sole employer is the state, [opposition] means death by slow starvation.
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The main task of Socialism – the organization of Socialist production – remains still in the future.
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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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You may not be interested in strategy, but strategy is interested in you.
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In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.
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One of the most surprising things in life is the sudden realization that one has become old.
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When one runs with the wolves, one must howl with the pack.
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