Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.
LEON TROTSKYThe people will have the right to elect their representatives from a list of candidates [who have been approved by the Party].
More Leon Trotsky Quotes
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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 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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If you cannot convince a Fascist, acquaint his head with the pavement.
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Revolutions are always verbose.
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In inner-party politics, these methods lead, as we shall yet see, to this: the party organization substitutes itself for the party, the central committee substitutes itself for the organization, and, finally, a dictator substitutes himself for the central committee.
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If we close our eyes to the dark sides of the workers’ State which we have helped to create, we shall never reach socialism.
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In a country where the sole employer is the State, opposition means death by slow starvation. The old principle: who does not work shall not eat, has been replaced by a new one: who does not obey shall not eat.
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Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
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I emphasized the significance of revolutionary strategy.
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I feel here that this time they have succeeded.
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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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Tell me anyway–Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies.
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In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.
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The revenge of history is more powerful than the revenge of the most powerful General Secretary.
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Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction.
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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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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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The struggle against war and its social source, capitalism, presupposes direct, active, unequivocal support to the oppressed colonial peoples in their struggles and wars against imperialism. A ‘neutral’ position is tantamount to support of imperialism.
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The pillars of Hercules of the United States are vulgarity and stupidity.
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The main task of Socialism – the organization of Socialist production – remains still in the future.
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England is nothing but the last ward of the European madhouse, and quite possibly it will prove to be the ward for particularly violent cases.
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One of the most surprising things in life is the sudden realization that one has become old.
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Workers – men and women – of all countries, place yourselves under the banner of the Fourth International. It is the banner of your approaching victory!
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Our party’s most outstanding mediocrity.
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Under all conditions, well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.
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