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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.

Leon Trotsky

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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Chain Human Lying Power Purchase Sale Shame
The United States is not only the strongest, but also the most terrified country.
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Country Fear State Strong Terrify
‎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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Betrayal Grave Serve Work
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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Flow Forever Fundamental Motion
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
Where the sole employer is the state, [opposition] means death by slow starvation.
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Death Employee Starve
Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
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Age Expectation Man Old
Our party’s most outstanding mediocrity.
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Average Outstanding Party
Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.
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Each Other Harmony Social
Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.
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Ideas Mindset Secure
Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction.
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Capital Fascism One Liner Reaction
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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Beautiful Breathe Fight Future Happiness Hope Horizon
Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one’s enemies.
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Carry Dangerous Enemy Learning
I emphasized the significance of revolutionary strategy.
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Revolution Significance Strategy
Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government.
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Government Ignorance Religion Tragedy
Revolutions are always verbose.
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One Liner Revolution

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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