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Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government.

Leon Trotsky

Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction.
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Capital Fascism One Liner Reaction
There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.
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Absolute Circumstance Peace Rule War
Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravity.
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Believe Force Gravity
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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Candidate Election People Right
The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces – in nature, in society, in man himself.
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Aspect Blind Force History Humanity Man Society Summary
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
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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Respect
Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government.
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Government Ignorance Religion Tragedy
The theory of the permanent revolution, in contradiction to the theory of socialism in one country, was recognized by the entire Bolshevik party during the period from 1917 to 1923.
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Contradiction Permanent Recognition Revolution Theory
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
The pillars of Hercules of the United States are vulgarity and stupidity.
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State Statute Stupidity Vulgar
The motive force of history is truth and not lies.
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Force History Man Motive
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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Creation Foundation Powerful World
In France, the leader of Jacobinism perished on the guillotine; with us, the change of leadership was achieved by means of arrest and banishment. The technique of the process is gentler, but its essence is the same.
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Banishment Essence Leadership Name
Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.
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Each Other Harmony Social
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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Guide History Leadership Position Time

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