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.
LEON TROTSKYRevolutionary realism tries to draw the maximum advantage from every situation – that is what makes it revolutionary – but at the same time it does not permit us to set ourselves fantastic aims – that is what makes it realistic.
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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The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces – in nature, in society, in man himself.
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Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
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Under all conditions, well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.
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Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.
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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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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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One of the most surprising things in life is the sudden realization that one has become old.
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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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I feel here that this time they have succeeded.
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I emphasized the significance of revolutionary strategy.
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The party that leans upon the workers but serves the bourgeoisie, in the period of the greatest sharpening of the class struggle, cannot but sense the smells wafted from the waiting grave.
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Nowhere else did repressions, purges, suppressions, and all other kinds of bureaucratic hooliganism in general acquire such horrifying scope as in Ukraine, in the struggle against powerful forces concealed in the Ukrainian masses that desired more freedom and independence.
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Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government.
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Fascism is a caricature of Jacobinism.
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