Our differences with [Joseph] Stalin are entirely of a strategical character.
LEON TROTSKY
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Let us not forget that revolutions are accomplished through people, although they be nameless. Materialism does not ignore the feeling, thinking, and acting man, but explains him.
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Our differences with [Joseph] Stalin are entirely of a strategical character.
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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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Tell me anyway–Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies.
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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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In a country where the sole employer is the State, opposition means death by slow starvation. The old principle: who does not work shall not eat, has been replaced by a new one: who does not obey shall not eat.
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The motive force of history is truth and not lies.
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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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If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.
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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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Where the sole employer is the state, [opposition] means death by slow starvation.
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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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The creative union of the conscious with the unconscious is what one usually calls ‘inspiration.’
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