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In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.
Leon Trotsky
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Leon Trotsky
Age: 60 †
Born: 1879
Born: January 1
Died: 1940
Died: January 1
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You may not be interested in strategy, but strategy is interested in you.
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In France, the leader of Jacobinism perished on the guillotine with us, the change of leadership was achieved by means of arrest and banishment. The technique of the process is gentler, but its essence is the same.
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Terror, as the demonstration of the will and strength of the working class, is historically justified, precisely because the proletariat was able thereby to break the political will of the intelligentsia, pacify the professional man of various categories and work, and gradually subordinate them to its own aims within the field of their specialties.
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The history of a revolution is for us first of all a history of the forcible entrance of the masses into the realm of rulership over their own destiny.
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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.
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There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.
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The revenge of history is more powerful than the revenge of the most powerful General Secretary.
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Is it possible to fulfill this task, is it possible to achieve the definite victory of Socialism in one country without the combined efforts of the proletarians of several advanced countries? No, it is impossible.
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The creative union of the conscious with the unconscious is what one usually calls 'inspiration.'
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Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
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He who slanders the victim aids the executioner.
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The party that leans upon the workers but serves the bourgeoisie, in the period of the greatest sharpening of the class struggle, cannot but sense the smells wafted from the waiting grave.
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A means can be justified only by its end. But the end in its turn needs to be justified.
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Revolutions are always verbose.
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Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction...
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Our planet is being turned into a filthy and evil-smelling imperialist barrack.
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[Vladimir] Lenin died in January, 1924 three months later [Joseph] Stalin expounded in writing Lenin's conception of the proletarian revolution.
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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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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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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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