The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
LEON TROTSKYYou are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on – into the dustbin of history!
More Leon Trotsky Quotes
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It is quite clear that the German and Chinese revolutions in case of victory would have changed the face of Europe and Asia, and perhaps of the whole world.
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The revolution has its own laws: in the period of its culmination it pushes the most highly developed, determined and far-seeing stratum of the revolutionary class to the most advanced positions.
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There is no justice in bureaucracy for the individual, for bureaucracy caters only to itself. One cannot practice the same bureaucracy as one is fighting against.
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The history of a revolution is for us first of all a history of the forcible entrance of the masses into the realm of rulership over their own destiny.
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Abusive language and swearing are a legacy of slavery, humiliation, and disrespect for human dignity, one’s own and that of other people.
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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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Fascism is a caricature of Jacobinism.
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Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government.
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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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One of the most surprising things in life is the sudden realization that one has become old.
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The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence.
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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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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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If we close our eyes to the dark sides of the workers’ State which we have helped to create, we shall never reach socialism.
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