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Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.

Leon Trotsky

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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Easy Frustration Greatness Life Misery Personal Raise Weakness
Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.
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Art Law
Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
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Age Expectation Man Old
He who slanders the victim aids the executioner.
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Execution Victim
Under all conditions, well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.
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Condition Distance Organization Point Violence
The struggle against war and its social source, capitalism, presupposes direct, active, unequivocal support to the oppressed colonial peoples in their struggles and wars against imperialism. A ‘neutral’ position is tantamount to support of imperialism.
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Colonial Imperialism Struggle Support War
When one runs with the wolves, one must howl with the pack.
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Run Togetherness Wolf
Revolutions are always verbose.
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One Liner Revolution
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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Committee Himself Organization Party Politics
Fascism is a caricature of Jacobinism.
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Fascism Religion
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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Banishment Essence Leadership Name
The United States is not only the strongest, but also the most terrified country.
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Country Fear State Strong Terrify
You may not be interested in strategy, but strategy is interested in you.
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Interest Motivational Strategy Yourself
From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.
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Patriotic People Reality
Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.
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Ideas Mindset Secure
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

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