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The usages and methods of warfare are thus determined by changing circumstances and, therefore, they themselves can in nowise be eternal.

Leon Trotsky

Our party’s most outstanding mediocrity.
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Average Outstanding Party
When one runs with the wolves, one must howl with the pack.
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Run Togetherness Wolf
Where the sole employer is the state, [opposition] means death by slow starvation.
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Death Employee Starve
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
I feel here that this time they have succeeded.
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Feeling Success Time
Root out the counter revolutionaries without mercy, lock up suspicious characters in concentration camps… Shirkers will be shot, regardless of past service.
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Camp Character Revolution Service
From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.
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Patriotic People Reality
The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
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End Justification Philosophy
Tell me anyway–Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies.
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Compare Finding Lying Truth
Fascism is a caricature of Jacobinism.
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Fascism Religion
Revolutionary realism tries to draw the maximum advantage from every situation – that is what makes it revolutionary – but at the same time it does not permit us to set ourselves fantastic aims – that is what makes it realistic.
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Advantage Draw Ourselves Revolution Time Try
If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.
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Discussion Greatness Mistake Time
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
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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History Individual Isolate Yourself
There is a limit to the application of democratic methods. You can inquire of all the passengers as to what type of car they like to ride in, but it is impossible to question them as to whether to apply the brakes when the train is at full speed and accident threatens.
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Accident Democracy Limitation Method Threat
Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government.
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Government Ignorance Religion Tragedy

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