Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.
LEON TROTSKYWhere the sole employer is the state, [opposition] means death by slow starvation.
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There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.
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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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The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
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It is also false that the revolution ripens and comes to development only in the national soil.
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The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence.
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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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Without a correct strategy the victory is impossible. But even the most correct strategy cannot give the victory under unfavorable objective conditions.
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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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Where the sole employer is the state, [opposition] means death by slow starvation.
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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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You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on – into the dustbin of history!
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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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Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely.
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The pillars of Hercules of the United States are vulgarity and stupidity.
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Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
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