Leon Trotsky Quotes
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Leon Trotsky Quotes & Sayings
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The creative union of the conscious with the unconscious is what one usually calls 'inspiration.'
— Leon Trotsky
In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.
— Leon Trotsky
Revolutions are always verbose.
— Leon Trotsky
When one runs with the wolves, one must howl with the pack.
— Leon Trotsky
Our party's most outstanding mediocrity.
— Leon Trotsky
The people will have the right to elect their representatives from a list of candidates [who have been approved by the Party].
— Leon Trotsky
There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.
— Leon Trotsky
One of the most surprising things in life is the sudden realization that one has become old
— Leon Trotsky
Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government.
— Leon Trotsky
Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction.
— Leon Trotsky
Everyone has the right to be stupid on occasion, but Comrade Macdonald abuses the privilege.
— Leon Trotsky
The revenge of history is more powerful than the revenge of the most powerful General Secretary.
— Leon Trotsky
Between his consciousness and events stood always that impenetrable medium - indifference.
— Leon Trotsky
He who slanders the victim aids the executioner.
— Leon Trotsky
Culture feeds on the sap of economics, and a material surplus is necessary, so that culture may grow, develop and become subtle.
— Leon Trotsky
Fascism is a caricature of Jacobinism.
— Leon Trotsky
Communism needs democracy like the human body needs oxygen.
— Leon Trotsky
Capitalism does live by crises and booms, just as a human being lives by inhaling and exhaling.
— Leon Trotsky
My favourite author is Leon Trotsky - the political philosophy and the way he writes is beautiful, and really relevant, too.
— Andrej Pejic
The motive force of history is truth and not lies.
— Leon Trotsky
Against my protests a mausoleum was built on the Red Square, a monument unbecoming and offensive to the revolutionary consciousness.
— Leon Trotsky
If we had had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.
— Leon Trotsky
In the meantime, the first characteristic of a really revolutionary party is -- to be able to look reality in the face.
— Leon Trotsky
The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence.
— Leon Trotsky
Revolution is impossible until it's inevitable.
— Leon Trotsky
Trotsky was so much an intellectual that in the final analysis, Marxism was not quite enough for him.
— Christopher Hitchens
A means can be justified only by its end. But the end in its turn needs to be justified.
— Leon Trotsky
I feel here that this time they have succeeded.
— Leon Trotsky
Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.
— Leon Trotsky
Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.
— Leon Trotsky
