Communism needs democracy like the human body needs oxygen.
LEON TROTSKYCity of prose and fantasy, of capitalist automation, its streets a triumph of cubism, its moral philosophy that of the dollar. New York impressed me tremendously because, more than any other city, it is the fullest expression of our modern age.
More Leon Trotsky Quotes
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Look back at history – those who guided the revolution in the time of its culmination never kept their leading positions long after the turning point.
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Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.
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Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.
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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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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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From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.
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The revenge of history is more powerful than the revenge of the most powerful General Secretary.
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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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The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
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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.
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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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Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.
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It is quite clear that the German and Chinese revolutions in case of victory would have changed the face of Europe and Asia, and perhaps of the whole world.
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Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one’s enemies.
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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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