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

Leon Trotsky

The United States is not only the strongest, but also the most terrified country.
LEON TROTSKY

Country Fear State Strong Terrify
With all due respect to all philistines, the dictatorship of the proletariat does just consist in “giving a hiding” to the classes that were previously supreme, before forcing them to recognize the new order and to submit to it.
LEON TROTSKY

Respect
Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.
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Change Endurance Relative World
It is also false that the revolution ripens and comes to development only in the national soil.
LEON TROTSKY

Development Fake National Revolution
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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Accident Democracy Limitation Method Threat
Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely.
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Complete Decision Force Necessary
The creative union of the conscious with the unconscious is what one usually calls ‘inspiration.’
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Call Creativity Inspirational Union
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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Country Fulfill Impossible Possible Task
Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravity.
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Believe Force Gravity
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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Creation Foundation Powerful World
He who slanders the victim aids the executioner.
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Execution Victim
One of the most surprising things in life is the sudden realization that one has become old.
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Life Old Oneself Realize Surprise
Where the sole employer is the state, [opposition] means death by slow starvation.
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Death Employee Starve
The main task of Socialism – the organization of Socialist production – remains still in the future.
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Future Organization Socialism Task
Under all conditions, well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.
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Condition Distance Organization Point Violence
Communism needs democracy like the human body needs oxygen.
LEON TROTSKY

Communism Democracy Need Oxygen

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