Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.
LEON TROTSKYEveryone has a right to be stupid, but Comrade MacDonald abuses the privilege.
More Leon Trotsky Quotes
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If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.
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Communism needs democracy like the human body needs oxygen.
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The party that leans upon the workers but serves the bourgeoisie, in the period of the greatest sharpening of the class struggle, cannot but sense the smells wafted from the waiting grave.
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In spite of the existence of the Soviet Union, however, the proletarian revolution during the past years has not recorded a victory in any other country.
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The revenge of history is more powerful than the revenge of the most powerful General Secretary.
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He who slanders the victim aids the executioner.
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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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The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence.
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Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one’s enemies.
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The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
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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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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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The fundamental flaw of vulgar thought lies in the fact that it wishes to content itself with motionless imprints of a reality which consists of eternal motion.
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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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Revolutions are always verbose.
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