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Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely.

Leon Trotsky

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.
LEON TROTSKY

Accomplishment Act Explanation Forget Man Name Revolution
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
You may not be interested in strategy, but strategy is interested in you.
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Interest Motivational Strategy Yourself
The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
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End Justification Philosophy
Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.
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Ideas Mindset Secure
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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Fight Government Individual Justice Practice
Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government.
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Government Ignorance Religion Tragedy
Communism needs democracy like the human body needs oxygen.
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Communism Democracy Need Oxygen
Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.
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Master Technique
Tell me anyway–Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies.
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Compare Finding Lying Truth
The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.
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Condition Custom Depth Moral Reserve Strength
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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Law Motion Photograph Relate Thinking
Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a maneuver, a blow with an agreement.
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Agreement Blow Bold Decisive Force Necessary
The pillars of Hercules of the United States are vulgarity and stupidity.
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State Statute Stupidity Vulgar
Fascism is a caricature of Jacobinism.
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Fascism Religion
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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Country Employer Obedience Principle State

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