The creative union of the conscious with the unconscious is what one usually calls ‘inspiration.’
LEON TROTSKYWhere the sole employer is the state, [opposition] means death by slow starvation.
More Leon Trotsky Quotes
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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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The fundamental flaw of vulgar thought lies in the fact that it wishes to content itself with motionless imprints of a reality which consists of eternal motion.
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You may not be interested in strategy, but strategy is interested in you.
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I feel here that this time they have succeeded.
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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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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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Is it possible to fulfill this task, is it possible to achieve the definite victory of Socialism in one country without the combined efforts of the proletarians of several advanced countries? No, it is impossible.
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The pillars of Hercules of the United States are vulgarity and stupidity.
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I emphasized the significance of revolutionary strategy.
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The history of a revolution is for us first of all a history of the forcible entrance of the masses into the realm of rulership over their own destiny.
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Revolutions are always verbose.
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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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Abusive language and swearing are a legacy of slavery, humiliation, and disrespect for human dignity, one’s own and that of other people.
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A means can be justified only by its end. But the end in its turn needs to be justified.
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Fascism is a caricature of Jacobinism.
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