Leon Trotsky Short Quotes

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The literary "fellow travelers" of the Revolution.

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Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.

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Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.

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Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.

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Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.

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Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.

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Not believing in force is the same thing as not believing in gravitation.

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From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.

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Art, it is said, is not a mirror, but a hammer: it does not reflect, it shapes.

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The United States is not only the strongest, but also the most terrified country.

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Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.

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The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.

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More than any other city in the world, it is the fullest expression of our modern age.

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The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence.

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The life of a revolutionary would be quite impossible without a certain amount of "fatalism."

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In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.

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Capitalism does live by crises and booms, just as a human being lives by inhaling and exhaling.

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If we had had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.

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It is also false that the revolution ripens and comes to development only in the national soil.

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Repression for the attainment of economic ends is a necessary weapon of the socialist dictatorship.

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The vengeance of history is more terrible than the vengeance of the most powerful General Secretary.

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There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.

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Under all conditions, well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.

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The main task of Socialism - the organization of Socialist production - remains still in the future.

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We must rid ourselves once and for all of the Quaker-Papist babble about the sanctity of human life.

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Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.

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There is no example in history of a revolutionary movement involving such gigantic masses being so bloodless.

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It was as the supreme expression of the mediocrity of the apparatus that Stalin himself rose to his position.

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Once again, he who ignores the problems of revolutionary strategy would do better not to talk about revolutions at all.

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Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal. The bourgeoisie in the long run only changed the form of the pack.

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