Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression, and violence, and enjoy it to the full.
LEON TROTSKYCommunism needs democracy like the human body needs oxygen.
More Leon Trotsky Quotes
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Life is not an easy matter… You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.
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Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government.
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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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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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If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.
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There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.
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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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From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.
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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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A means can be justified only by its end. But the end in its turn needs to be justified.
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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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Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction.
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Our differences with [Joseph] Stalin are entirely of a strategical character.
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Revolutions are always verbose.
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