The usages and methods of warfare are thus determined by changing circumstances and, therefore, they themselves can in nowise be eternal.
LEON TROTSKYFrom being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.
More Leon Trotsky Quotes
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Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.
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Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
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The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
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You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on – into the dustbin of history!
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Tell me anyway–Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies.
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Revolutionary realism tries to draw the maximum advantage from every situation – that is what makes it revolutionary – but at the same time it does not permit us to set ourselves fantastic aims – that is what makes it realistic.
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Under all conditions, well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.
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In inner-party politics, these methods lead, as we shall yet see, to this: the party organization substitutes itself for the party, the central committee substitutes itself for the organization, and, finally, a dictator substitutes himself for the central committee.
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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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In the appendix to my History of the Russian Revolution I give a detailed and documented study of the ideas of the Bolshevik party on the October revolution. This study, I hope, will make it impossible in the future to ascribe to [Vladimir] Lenin the theory of Socialism in a single country.
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The pillars of Hercules of the United States are vulgarity and stupidity.
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Where the sole employer is the state, [opposition] means death by slow starvation.
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Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.
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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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If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.
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