The people will have the right to elect their representatives from a list of candidates [who have been approved by the Party].
LEON TROTSKYIf you cannot convince a Fascist, acquaint his head with the pavement.
More Leon Trotsky Quotes
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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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Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely.
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Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government.
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Look back at history – those who guided the revolution in the time of its culmination never kept their leading positions long after the turning point.
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If 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?
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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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When one runs with the wolves, one must howl with the pack.
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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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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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Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.
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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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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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Once again, he who ignores the problems of revolutionary strategy would do better not to talk about revolutions at all.
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The revenge of history is more powerful than the revenge of the most powerful General Secretary.
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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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