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.
LEON TROTSKYThere are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.
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Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain – at least in a poor country like Russia – and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.
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Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely.
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Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.
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The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces – in nature, in society, in man himself.
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If you cannot convince a Fascist, acquaint his head with the pavement.
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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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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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Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government.
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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 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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Revolutions are always verbose.
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Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.
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Tell me anyway–Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies.
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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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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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