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Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.
Leon Trotsky
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Leon Trotsky
Age: 60 †
Born: 1879
Born: January 1
Died: 1940
Died: January 1
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I wrote a study about this question, The Lessons of October, which served as a pretext for my elimination from the government.
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Root out the counterrevolutionaries without mercy, lock up suspicious characters in concentration camps... Shirkers will be shot, regardless of past service.
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City of prose and fantasy, of capitalist automation, its streets a triumph of cubism, its moral philosophy that of the dollar. New York impressed me tremendously because, more than any other city, it is the fullest expression of our modern age.
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Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.
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If you cannot convince a Fascist, acquaint his head with the pavement.
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Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.
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Nowhere else did repressions, purges, suppressions, and all other kinds of bureaucratic hooliganism in general acquire such horrifying scope as in Ukraine, in the struggle against powerful forces concealed in the Ukrainian masses that desired more freedom and independence.
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There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.
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