Revolutions are always verbose.
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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Communism needs democracy like the human body needs oxygen.
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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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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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The people will have the right to elect their representatives from a list of candidates [who have been approved by the Party].
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Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression, and violence, and enjoy it to the full.
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Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.
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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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When one runs with the wolves, one must howl with the pack.
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England is nothing but the last ward of the European madhouse, and quite possibly it will prove to be the ward for particularly violent cases.
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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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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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The pillars of Hercules of the United States are vulgarity and stupidity.
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If we close our eyes to the dark sides of the workers’ State which we have helped to create, we shall never reach socialism.
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If you cannot convince a Fascist, acquaint his head with the pavement.
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Nowhere else did repressions, purges, suppressions, and all other kinds of bureaucratic hooliganism in general acquire such horrifying scope as in Ukraine, in the struggle against powerful forces concealed in the Ukrainian masses that desired more freedom and independence.
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