If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.
LEON TROTSKYWhere the sole employer is the state, [opposition] means death by slow starvation.
More Leon Trotsky Quotes
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Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.
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There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.
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Only in the Fall of 1924 did [Joseph] Stalin discover that it is especially Russia, as distinguished from other countries, which can by its own forces build up a socialist society.
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Nowhere else did repressions, purges, suppressions, and all other kinds of bureaucratic hooliganism in general acquire such horrifying scope as in Ukraine, in the struggle against powerful forces concealed in the Ukrainian masses that desired more freedom and independence.
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Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely.
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He who slanders the victim aids the executioner.
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Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.
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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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Where 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.
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Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.
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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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Dialectical thought is related to vulgar thinking in the same way that a motion picture is related to a still photograph. The motion picture does not outlaw the still photograph but combines a series of them according to the laws of motion.
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The people will have the right to elect their representatives from a list of candidates [who have been approved by the Party].
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Let us not forget that revolutions are accomplished through people, although they be nameless. Materialism does not ignore the feeling, thinking, and acting man, but explains him.
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The revenge of history is more powerful than the revenge of the most powerful General Secretary.
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