Where the sole employer is the state, [opposition] means death by slow starvation.
LEON TROTSKYLife is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression, and violence, and enjoy it to the full.
More Leon Trotsky Quotes
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From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.
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Revolutions are always verbose.
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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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The people will have the right to elect their representatives from a list of candidates [who have been approved by the Party].
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He who slanders the victim aids the executioner.
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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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Life is not an easy matter… You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.
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England is nothing but the last ward of the European madhouse, and quite possibly it will prove to be the ward for particularly violent cases.
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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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Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
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The United States is not only the strongest, but also the most terrified country.
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If you cannot convince a Fascist, acquaint his head with the pavement.
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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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Our party’s most outstanding mediocrity.
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Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.
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