Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely.
LEON TROTSKYTechnique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.
More Leon Trotsky Quotes
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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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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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The revolution has its own laws: in the period of its culmination it pushes the most highly developed, determined and far-seeing stratum of the revolutionary class to the most advanced positions.
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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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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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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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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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The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence.
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The creative union of the conscious with the unconscious is what one usually calls ‘inspiration.’
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I feel here that this time they have succeeded.
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The party that leans upon the workers but serves the bourgeoisie, in the period of the greatest sharpening of the class struggle, cannot but sense the smells wafted from the waiting grave.
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He who slanders the victim aids the executioner.
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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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You may not be interested in strategy, but strategy is interested in you.
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When one runs with the wolves, one must howl with the pack.
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