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 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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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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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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Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one’s enemies.
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Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.
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Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.
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Once again, he who ignores the problems of revolutionary strategy would do better not to talk about revolutions at all.
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Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction.
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In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.
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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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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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Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.
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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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Root out the counter revolutionaries without mercy, lock up suspicious characters in concentration camps… Shirkers will be shot, regardless of past service.
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Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.
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