When one runs with the wolves, one must howl with the pack.
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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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.
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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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The main task of Socialism – the organization of Socialist production – remains still in the future.
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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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Let us not forget that revolutions are accomplished through people, although they be nameless. Materialism does not ignore the feeling, thinking, and acting man, but explains him.
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Our planet is being turned into a filthy and evil-smelling imperialist barrack.
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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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In a country where the sole employer is the State, opposition means death by slow starvation. The old principle: who does not work shall not eat, has been replaced by a new one: who does not obey shall not eat.
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The pillars of Hercules of the United States are vulgarity and stupidity.
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He who slanders the victim aids the executioner.
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The fundamental flaw of vulgar thought lies in the fact that it wishes to content itself with motionless imprints of a reality which consists of eternal motion.
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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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Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.
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The revenge of history is more powerful than the revenge of the most powerful General Secretary.
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The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
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