Root out the counter revolutionaries without mercy, lock up suspicious characters in concentration camps… Shirkers will be shot, regardless of past service.
LEON TROTSKYThe motive force of history is truth and not lies.
More Leon Trotsky Quotes
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Fascism is a caricature of Jacobinism.
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Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravity.
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Communism needs democracy like the human body needs oxygen.
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He who slanders the victim aids the executioner.
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Our party’s most outstanding mediocrity.
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Our planet is being turned into a filthy and evil-smelling imperialist barrack.
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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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It is quite clear that the German and Chinese revolutions in case of victory would have changed the face of Europe and Asia, and perhaps of the whole world.
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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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In spite of the existence of the Soviet Union, however, the proletarian revolution during the past years has not recorded a victory in any other country.
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The revenge of history is more powerful than the revenge of the most powerful General Secretary.
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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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Workers – men and women – of all countries, place yourselves under the banner of the Fourth International. It is the banner of your approaching victory!
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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 task of the proletariat is to create a still more powerful fatherland with a far greater power of resistance, the Republican United States of Europe, as the foundation of the United States of the World.
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