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.
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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When one runs with the wolves, one must howl with the pack.
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Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
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Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravity.
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The party that leans upon the workers but serves the bourgeoisie, in the period of the greatest sharpening of the class struggle, cannot but sense the smells wafted from the waiting grave.
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There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.
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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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Where the sole employer is the state, [opposition] means death by slow starvation.
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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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The struggle against war and its social source, capitalism, presupposes direct, active, unequivocal support to the oppressed colonial peoples in their struggles and wars against imperialism. A ‘neutral’ position is tantamount to support of imperialism.
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Communism needs democracy like the human body needs oxygen.
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Revolutions are always verbose.
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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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A means can be justified only by its end. But the end in its turn needs to be justified.
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The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces – in nature, in society, in man himself.
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You may not be interested in strategy, but strategy is interested in you.
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