Leon Trotsky Quotes
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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.
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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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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.
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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
The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces -- in nature, in society, in man himself.
~ Leon Trotsky Quote
Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction.
~ Leon Trotsky Quote
Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a maneuver, a blow with an agreement.
~ Leon Trotsky Quote
Dialectical thought is related to vulgar thinking in the same way that a motion picture is related to a still photograph. The motion picture does not outlaw the still photograph but combines a series of them according to the laws of motion.
~ Leon Trotsky Quote
England is nothing but the last ward of the European madhouse, and quite possibly it will prove to be the ward for particularly violent cases.
~ Leon Trotsky Quote
If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.
~ Leon Trotsky Quote
Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation.
~ Leon Trotsky Quote
There is a limit to the application of democratic methods. You can inquire of all the passengers as to what type of car they like to ride in, but it is impossible to question them as to whether to apply the brakes when the train is at full speed and accident threatens.
~ Leon Trotsky Quote
When force is necessary, it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a maneuver, the blow with an agreement.
~ Leon Trotsky Quote
The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
~ Leon Trotsky Quote
If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant.
~ Leon Trotsky Quote
There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.
~ Leon Trotsky Quote
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.
~ Leon Trotsky Quote
Man will become immeasurably stronger, wiser, and subtler; his body will become more harmonious, his movements more rhythmic, his voice more musical. The forms of life will become dynamically dramatic. The average human type will rise to the heights of an Aristotle, a Goethe, or a Marx. And above these heights, new peaks will rise.
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Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
~ Leon Trotsky Quote
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.
~ Leon Trotsky Quote
The slanders poured down like Niagara. If you take into consideration the setting -- the war and the revolution -- and the character of the accused -- revolutionary leaders of millions who were conducting their party to the sovereign power -- you can say without exaggeration that July 1917 was the month of the most gigantic slander in world history.
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From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.
~ Leon Trotsky Quote
