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Without a correct strategy the victory is impossible. But even the most correct strategy cannot give the victory under unfavorable objective conditions.

Leon Trotsky

Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.
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Change Endurance Relative World
Workers – men and women – of all countries, place yourselves under the banner of the Fourth International. It is the banner of your approaching victory!
LEON TROTSKY

Man Place Victory Woman Work
When one runs with the wolves, one must howl with the pack.
LEON TROTSKY

Run Togetherness Wolf
Under all conditions, well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.
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Condition Distance Organization Point Violence
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
Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.
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Ideas Mindset Secure
One of the most surprising things in life is the sudden realization that one has become old.
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Life Old Oneself Realize Surprise
A means can be justified only by its end. But the end in its turn needs to be justified.
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End Justification Need
From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.
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Patriotic People Reality
Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely.
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Complete Decision Force Necessary
I feel here that this time they have succeeded.
LEON TROTSKY

Feeling Success Time
The fall of the present bureaucratic dictatorship [in the Soviet Union], if it were not replaced by a new socialist power, would thus mean a return to capitalist relations with a catastrophic decline of industry and culture.
LEON TROTSKY

Decline Dictatorship Fall Industry Present Replacement
Capitalism does live by crises and booms, just as a human being lives by inhaling and exhaling.
LEON TROTSKY

Crisis Exhale Human Inhale Live
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
Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.
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Art Law
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.
LEON TROTSKY

Chain Human Lying Power Purchase Sale Shame

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