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.
LEON TROTSKYIf we close our eyes to the dark sides of the workers’ State which we have helped to create, we shall never reach socialism.
More Leon Trotsky Quotes
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To overthrow the power of the bourgeoisie and to establish the power of the proletariat in one country still does not signify the full victory of Socialism.
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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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The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
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Everyone has a right to be stupid, but Comrade MacDonald abuses the privilege.
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Fascism is a caricature of Jacobinism.
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The revolution has its own laws: in the period of its culmination it pushes the most highly developed, determined and far-seeing stratum of the revolutionary class to the most advanced positions.
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City 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.
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Against my protests a mausoleum was built on the Red Square, a monument unbecoming and offensive to the revolutionary consciousness.
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When one runs with the wolves, one must howl with the pack.
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Our differences with [Joseph] Stalin are entirely of a strategical character.
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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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Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely.
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From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.
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The main task of Socialism – the organization of Socialist production – remains still in the future.
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The task of the proletariat is to create a still more powerful fatherland with a far greater power of resistance, the Republican United States of Europe, as the foundation of the United States of the World.
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