When one runs with the wolves, one must howl with the pack.
LEON TROTSKYWhen one runs with the wolves, one must howl with the pack.
More Leon Trotsky Quotes
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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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There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.
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Is it possible to fulfill this task, is it possible to achieve the definite victory of Socialism in one country without the combined efforts of the proletarians of several advanced countries? No, it is impossible.
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Against my protests a mausoleum was built on the Red Square, a monument unbecoming and offensive to the revolutionary consciousness.
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Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction.
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Revolutions are always verbose.
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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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The main task of Socialism – the organization of Socialist production – remains still in the future.
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Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.
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Fascism is a caricature of Jacobinism.
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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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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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From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.
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Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one’s enemies.
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Communism needs democracy like the human body needs oxygen.
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