Abusive language and swearing are a legacy of slavery, humiliation, and disrespect for human dignity, one’s own and that of other people.
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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You may not be interested in strategy, but strategy is interested in you.
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The motive force of history is truth and not lies.
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All the parties of capitalist society, all its moralists and all its sycophants will perish beneath the debris of the impending catastrophe. The only party that will survive is the party of the world socialist revolution.
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From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.
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The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence.
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The creative union of the conscious with the unconscious is what one usually calls ‘inspiration.’
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Our differences with [Joseph] Stalin are entirely of a strategical character.
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Workers – men and women – of all countries, place yourselves under the banner of the Fourth International. It is the banner of your approaching victory!
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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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Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.
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In 1917 there was not a single Bolshevik who considered possible the realization of a socialist society in a single country, and least of all in Russia.
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Revolutions are always verbose.
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Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction.
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Under all conditions, well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.
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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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