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The United States is not only the strongest, but also the most terrified country.

Leon Trotsky

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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Aspect Blind Force History Humanity Man Society Summary
Fascism is a caricature of Jacobinism.
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Fascism Religion
Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely.
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Complete Decision Force Necessary
In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.
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Cruelty Serious Struggle Time Worst
Tell me anyway–Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies.
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Compare Finding Lying Truth
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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Condition Custom Depth Moral Reserve Strength
Revolutions are always verbose.
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One Liner Revolution
Capitalism does live by crises and booms, just as a human being lives by inhaling and exhaling.
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Crisis Exhale Human Inhale Live
Under all conditions, well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.
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Condition Distance Organization Point Violence
It is also false that the revolution ripens and comes to development only in the national soil.
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Development Fake National Revolution
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
Communism needs democracy like the human body needs oxygen.
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Communism Democracy Need Oxygen
The revenge of history is more powerful than the revenge of the most powerful General Secretary.
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History Powerful Revenge Secretary
Where the sole employer is the state, [opposition] means death by slow starvation.
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Death Employee Starve
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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Country Effect Finding Man Production Vehicle
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

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