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~ Leon Trotsky Quote
If we had had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.
~ Leon Trotsky Quote
Life is beautiful, enjoy it to the fullest.
~ Leon Trotsky Quote
Revolutions are always verbose.
~ Leon Trotsky Quote
The dialectic is neither fiction nor mysticism, but a science of the forms of our thinking insofar as it is not limited to the daily problems of life but attempts to arrive at an understanding of more complicated and drawn-out processes. The dialectic and formal logic bear a relationship similar to that between higher and lower mathematics.
~ Leon Trotsky Quote
Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.
~ Leon Trotsky Quote
Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.
~ Leon Trotsky Quote
In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.
~ Leon Trotsky Quote
Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.
~ Leon Trotsky Quote
The dialectic is not a magic master key for all questions. It does not replace concrete scientific analysis. But it directs this analysis along the correct road, securing it against sterile wanderings in the desert of subjectivism and scholasticism.
~ Leon Trotsky Quote
You may not be interested in strategy, but strategy is interested in you.
~ Leon Trotsky Quote
Dialectical materialism is not of course an eternal and immutable philosophy. To think otherwise is to contradict the spirit of the dialectic. Further development of scientific thought will undoubtedly create a more profound doctrine into which dialectical materialism will enter merely as structural material.
~ Leon Trotsky Quote
Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.
~ Leon Trotsky Quote
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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You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on / into the dustbin of history!
~ Leon Trotsky Quote