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.
LEON TROTSKYThe United States is not only the strongest, but also the most terrified country.
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Fascism is a caricature of Jacobinism.
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Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely.
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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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Tell me anyway–Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies.
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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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Revolutions are always verbose.
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Capitalism does live by crises and booms, just as a human being lives by inhaling and exhaling.
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Under all conditions, well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.
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It is also false that the revolution ripens and comes to development only in the national soil.
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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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Communism needs democracy like the human body needs oxygen.
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The revenge of history is more powerful than the revenge of the most powerful General Secretary.
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Where the sole employer is the state, [opposition] means death by slow starvation.
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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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A means can be justified only by its end. But the end in its turn needs to be justified.
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