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Our differences with [Joseph] Stalin are entirely of a strategical character.

Leon Trotsky

Our planet is being turned into a filthy and evil-smelling imperialist barrack.
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Ourselves Planet Pollution
The creative union of the conscious with the unconscious is what one usually calls ‘inspiration.’
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Call Creativity Inspirational Union
If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.
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Discussion Greatness Mistake Time
The United States is not only the strongest, but also the most terrified country.
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Country Fear State Strong Terrify
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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Capital Catastrophe Moral Party Revolution Social Society Survive
As long as I breathe I hope. As long as I breathe I shall fight for the future, that radiant future, in which man, strong and beautiful, will become master of the drifting stream of his history and will direct it towards the boundless horizons of beauty, joy and happiness!
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Beautiful Breathe Fight Future Happiness Hope Horizon
In 1917 there was not a single Bolshevik who considered possible the realization of a socialist society in a single country, and least of all in Russia.
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Country Possible Realization Social
I emphasized the significance of revolutionary strategy.
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Revolution Significance Strategy
Where the sole employer is the state, [opposition] means death by slow starvation.
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Death Employee Starve
Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.
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Change Endurance Relative World
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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Fight Government Individual Justice Practice
He who slanders the victim aids the executioner.
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Execution Victim
Our party’s most outstanding mediocrity.
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Average Outstanding Party
Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain – at least in a poor country like Russia – and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.
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Country Effect Finding Man Production Vehicle
The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.
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Condition Custom Depth Moral Reserve Strength
The usages and methods of warfare are thus determined by changing circumstances and, therefore, they themselves can in nowise be eternal.
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Determination Forever Method Usage

Our differences with [Joseph] Stalin are entirely of a strategical character.

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