Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely.
LEON TROTSKYWhere force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely.
LEON TROTSKYLook back at history – those who guided the revolution in the time of its culmination never kept their leading positions long after the turning point.
LEON TROTSKYIdeas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.
LEON TROTSKYWhere force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a maneuver, a blow with an agreement.
LEON TROTSKYThe 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.
LEON TROTSKYIf one cannot get along without a mirror, even in shaving oneself, how can one reconstruct oneself or one’s life, without seeing oneself in the “mirror” of literature?
LEON TROTSKYIf you cannot convince a Fascist, acquaint his head with the pavement.
LEON TROTSKYThe revenge of history is more powerful than the revenge of the most powerful General Secretary.
LEON TROTSKYOld age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
LEON TROTSKYBureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.
LEON TROTSKYI feel here that this time they have succeeded.
LEON TROTSKYLife 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.
LEON TROTSKYAll 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.
LEON TROTSKYOur planet is being turned into a filthy and evil-smelling imperialist barrack.
LEON TROTSKYThe fall of the present bureaucratic dictatorship [in the Soviet Union], if it were not replaced by a new socialist power, would thus mean a return to capitalist relations with a catastrophic decline of industry and culture.
LEON TROTSKYYou may not be interested in strategy, but strategy is interested in you.
LEON TROTSKY