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.
LEON TROTSKYWhen one runs with the wolves, one must howl with the pack.
More Leon Trotsky Quotes
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You may not be interested in strategy, but strategy is interested in you.
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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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Workers – men and women – of all countries, place yourselves under the banner of the Fourth International. It is the banner of your approaching victory!
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Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.
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Once again, he who ignores the problems of revolutionary strategy would do better not to talk about revolutions at all.
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There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.
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I emphasized the significance of revolutionary strategy.
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As long as I breathe I hope. As long as I breathe I shall fight for the future, that radiant future, in which man, strong and beautiful, will become master of the drifting stream of his history and will direct it towards the boundless horizons of beauty, joy and happiness!
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If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.
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Our planet is being turned into a filthy and evil-smelling imperialist barrack.
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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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Without a correct strategy the victory is impossible. But even the most correct strategy cannot give the victory under unfavorable objective conditions.
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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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Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
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Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.
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