Tell me anyway–Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies.
LEON TROTSKYThe usages and methods of warfare are thus determined by changing circumstances and, therefore, they themselves can in nowise be eternal.
More Leon Trotsky Quotes
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Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.
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Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction.
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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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Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.
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In spite of the existence of the Soviet Union, however, the proletarian revolution during the past years has not recorded a victory in any other country.
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City of prose and fantasy, of capitalist automation, its streets a triumph of cubism, its moral philosophy that of the dollar. New York impressed me tremendously because, more than any other city, it is the fullest expression of our modern age.
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I feel here that this time they have succeeded.
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Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
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Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravity.
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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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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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Everyone has a right to be stupid, but Comrade MacDonald abuses the privilege.
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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.
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All the parties of capitalist society, all its moralists and all its sycophants will perish beneath the debris of the impending catastrophe. The only party that will survive is the party of the world socialist revolution.
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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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