It is also false that the revolution ripens and comes to development only in the national soil.
LEON TROTSKYIf we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.
More Leon Trotsky Quotes
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The United States is not only the strongest, but also the most terrified country.
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The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
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There is a limit to the application of democratic methods. You can inquire of all the passengers as to what type of car they like to ride in, but it is impossible to question them as to whether to apply the brakes when the train is at full speed and accident threatens.
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Capitalism does live by crises and booms, just as a human being lives by inhaling and exhaling.
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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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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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Our party’s most outstanding mediocrity.
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The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence.
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The pillars of Hercules of the United States are vulgarity and stupidity.
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Dialectical thought is related to vulgar thinking in the same way that a motion picture is related to a still photograph. The motion picture does not outlaw the still photograph but combines a series of them according to the laws of motion.
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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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From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.
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Communism needs democracy like the human body needs oxygen.
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You may not be interested in strategy, but strategy is interested in you.
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He who slanders the victim aids the executioner.
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