The United States is not only the strongest, but also the most terrified country.
LEON TROTSKYThe United States is not only the strongest, but also the most terrified country.
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Our planet is being turned into a filthy and evil-smelling imperialist barrack.
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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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Everyone has a right to be stupid, but Comrade MacDonald abuses the privilege.
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England is nothing but the last ward of the European madhouse, and quite possibly it will prove to be the ward for particularly violent cases.
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If one cannot get along without a mirror, even in shaving oneself, how can one reconstruct oneself or one’s life, without seeing oneself in the “mirror” of literature?
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Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.
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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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City of prose and fantasy, of capitalist automation, its streets a triumph of cubism, its moral philosophy that of the dollar. New York impressed me tremendously because, more than any other city, it is the fullest expression of our modern age.
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Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction.
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The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
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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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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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Our party’s most outstanding mediocrity.
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As long as human labor power, and, consequently, life itself, remain articles of sale and purchase, of exploitation and robbery, the principle of the “sacredness of human life” remains a shameful lie, uttered with the object of keeping the oppressed slaves in their chains.
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The Soviet Union needs thinking and critical friends, such as are capable not only of singing hymns in the hours of success, but of not shrinking in the hour of defeat and danger.
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