He who slanders the victim aids the executioner.
LEON TROTSKYHe who slanders the victim aids the executioner.
More Leon Trotsky Quotes
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Our planet is being turned into a filthy and evil-smelling imperialist barrack.
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Everyone has a right to be stupid, but Comrade MacDonald abuses the privilege.
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All the parties of capitalist society, all its moralists and all its sycophants will perish beneath the debris of the impending catastrophe. The only party that will survive is the party of the world socialist revolution.
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I feel here that this time they have succeeded.
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The fall of the present bureaucratic dictatorship [in the Soviet Union], if it were not replaced by a new socialist power, would thus mean a return to capitalist relations with a catastrophic decline of industry and culture.
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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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From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.
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Root out the counter revolutionaries without mercy, lock up suspicious characters in concentration camps… Shirkers will be shot, regardless of past service.
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If you cannot convince a Fascist, acquaint his head with the pavement.
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The creative union of the conscious with the unconscious is what one usually calls ‘inspiration.’
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When one runs with the wolves, one must howl with the pack.
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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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Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression, and violence, and enjoy it to the full.
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The usages and methods of warfare are thus determined by changing circumstances and, therefore, they themselves can in nowise be eternal.
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In spite of the existence of the Soviet Union, however, the proletarian revolution during the past years has not recorded a victory in any other country.
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