If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.
LEON TROTSKYBureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.
More Leon Trotsky Quotes
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Against my protests a mausoleum was built on the Red Square, a monument unbecoming and offensive to the revolutionary consciousness.
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I emphasized the significance of revolutionary strategy.
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There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.
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The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
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Is it possible to fulfill this task, is it possible to achieve the definite victory of Socialism in one country without the combined efforts of the proletarians of several advanced countries? No, it is impossible.
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Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.
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Revolutions are always verbose.
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Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.
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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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When one runs with the wolves, one must howl with the pack.
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Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.
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You may not be interested in strategy, but strategy is interested in you.
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The theory of the permanent revolution, in contradiction to the theory of socialism in one country, was recognized by the entire Bolshevik party during the period from 1917 to 1923.
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I feel here that this time they have succeeded.
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