Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely.
LEON TROTSKYBureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.
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Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a maneuver, a blow with an agreement.
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Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression, and violence, and enjoy it to the full.
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The fundamental flaw of vulgar thought lies in the fact that it wishes to content itself with motionless imprints of a reality which consists of eternal motion.
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Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.
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The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence.
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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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Fascism is a caricature of Jacobinism.
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If we close our eyes to the dark sides of the workers’ State which we have helped to create, we shall never reach socialism.
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As long as I breathe I hope. As long as I breathe I shall fight for the future, that radiant future, in which man, strong and beautiful, will become master of the drifting stream of his history and will direct it towards the boundless horizons of beauty, joy and happiness!
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The pillars of Hercules of the United States are vulgarity and stupidity.
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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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The revenge of history is more powerful than the revenge of the most powerful General Secretary.
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Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.
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If one cannot get along without a mirror, even in shaving oneself, how can one reconstruct oneself or one’s life, without seeing oneself in the “mirror” of literature?
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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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