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.
LEON TROTSKYThe dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence.
More Leon Trotsky Quotes
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Our party’s most outstanding mediocrity.
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I emphasized the significance of revolutionary strategy.
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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 The old principle: who does not work shall not eat, has been replaced by a new one: who does not obey shall not eat.
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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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As long as I breathe I hope. As long as I breathe I shall fight for the future, that radiant future, in which man, strong and beautiful, will become master of the drifting stream of his history and will direct it towards the boundless horizons of beauty, joy and happiness!
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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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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 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 United States is not only the strongest, but also the most terrified country.
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Where the sole employer is the state, [opposition] means death by slow starvation.
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Under all conditions, well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.
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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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Fascism is a caricature of Jacobinism.
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In the appendix to my History of the Russian Revolution I give a detailed and documented study of the ideas of the Bolshevik party on the October revolution. This study, I hope, will make it impossible in the future to ascribe to [Vladimir] Lenin the theory of Socialism in a single country.
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