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There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.

Leon Trotsky

Our party’s most outstanding mediocrity.
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Average Outstanding Party
If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.
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Discussion Greatness Mistake Time
Abusive language and swearing are a legacy of slavery, humiliation, and disrespect for human dignity, one’s own and that of other people.
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Humiliation Language Oneself People Swear
The revenge of history is more powerful than the revenge of the most powerful General Secretary.
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History Powerful Revenge Secretary
Revolutionary realism tries to draw the maximum advantage from every situation – that is what makes it revolutionary – but at the same time it does not permit us to set ourselves fantastic aims – that is what makes it realistic.
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Advantage Draw Ourselves Revolution Time Try
From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.
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Patriotic People Reality
Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.
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Master Technique
The fall of the present bureaucratic dictatorship [in the Soviet Union], if it were not replaced by a new socialist power, would thus mean a return to capitalist relations with a catastrophic decline of industry and culture.
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Decline Dictatorship Fall Industry Present Replacement
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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Destiny Entrance Force History Revolution Rule
Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.
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Ideas Mindset Secure
Against my protests a mausoleum was built on the Red Square, a monument unbecoming and offensive to the revolutionary consciousness.
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Conscious Protect Revolution
Without a correct strategy the victory is impossible. But even the most correct strategy cannot give the victory under unfavorable objective conditions.
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Condition Correct Objective Victory
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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Development Law Position Revolution
A means can be justified only by its end. But the end in its turn needs to be justified.
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End Justification Need
Everyone has a right to be stupid, but Comrade MacDonald abuses the privilege.
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Abuse Privilege Right Stupidity
I feel here that this time they have succeeded.
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Feeling Success Time

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