Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one’s enemies.
LEON TROTSKYDialectical 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.
More Leon Trotsky Quotes
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Where the sole employer is the state, [opposition] means death by slow starvation.
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Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravity.
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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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It is quite clear that the German and Chinese revolutions in case of victory would have changed the face of Europe and Asia, and perhaps of the whole world.
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Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
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Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction.
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The United States is not only the strongest, but also the most terrified country.
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As long as human labor power, and, consequently, life itself, remain articles of sale and purchase, of exploitation and robbery, the principle of the “sacredness of human life” remains a shameful lie, uttered with the object of keeping the oppressed slaves in their chains.
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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 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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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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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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The creative union of the conscious with the unconscious is what one usually calls ‘inspiration.’
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Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.
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The task of the proletariat is to create a still more powerful fatherland with a far greater power of resistance, the Republican United States of Europe, as the foundation of the United States of the World.
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