Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.
LEON TROTSKYIf you cannot convince a Fascist, acquaint his head with the pavement.
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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Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government.
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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 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.
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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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In the appendix to my History of the Russian Revolution I give a detailed and documented study of the ideas of the Bolshevik party on the October revolution. This study, I hope, will make it impossible in the future to ascribe to [Vladimir] Lenin the theory of Socialism in a single country.
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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.
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Our party’s most outstanding mediocrity.
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In inner-party politics, these methods lead, as we shall yet see, to this: the party organization substitutes itself for the party, the central committee substitutes itself for the organization, and, finally, a dictator substitutes himself for the central committee.
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You may not be interested in strategy, but strategy is interested in you.
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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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I emphasized the significance of revolutionary strategy.
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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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Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.
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Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.
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