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When one runs with the wolves, one must howl with the pack.

Leon Trotsky

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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Determination Forever Method Usage
Capitalism does live by crises and booms, just as a human being lives by inhaling and exhaling.
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Crisis Exhale Human Inhale Live
Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.
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Master Technique
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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Chain Human Lying Power Purchase Sale Shame
A means can be justified only by its end. But the end in its turn needs to be justified.
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End Justification Need
In France, the leader of Jacobinism perished on the guillotine; with us, the change of leadership was achieved by means of arrest and banishment. The technique of the process is gentler, but its essence is the same.
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Banishment Essence Leadership Name
To overthrow the power of the bourgeoisie and to establish the power of the proletariat in one country still does not signify the full victory of Socialism.
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Establishment Power Socialism Victory
In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.
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Cruelty Serious Struggle Time Worst
In 1917 there was not a single Bolshevik who considered possible the realization of a socialist society in a single country, and least of all in Russia.
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Country Possible Realization Social
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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Country Existence Record Revolution
If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.
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Discussion Greatness Mistake Time
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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Clear Oneself Quite Revolution World
Where the sole employer is the state, [opposition] means death by slow starvation.
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Death Employee Starve
Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
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Age Expectation Man Old
Tell me anyway–Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies.
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Compare Finding Lying Truth
The task of the proletariat is to create a still more powerful fatherland with a far greater power of resistance, the Republican United States of Europe, as the foundation of the United States of the World.
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Creation Foundation Powerful World

When one runs with the wolves, one must howl with the pack.

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