The revolution has its own laws: in the period of its culmination it pushes the most highly developed, determined and far-seeing stratum… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
That the existence of the Soviet Union has an international revolutionary significance is a commonplace equally recognized by friends and foes. — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
“In the meantime, the first characteristic of a really revolutionary party is -- to be able to look reality in the face.” — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Once again, he who ignores the problems of revolutionary strategy would do better not to talk about revolutions at all. — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
The dynamic of revolutionary events is directly determined by swift, intense, and passionate changes in the psychology of classes which have already… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
What shall we call an "immediate possibility"? In 1923 the situation in Germany was profoundly revolutionary, but what was lacking for a… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Against my protests a mausoleum was built on the Red Square, a monument unbecoming and offensive to the revolutionary consciousness. — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
The slanders poured down like Niagara. If you take into consideration the setting - the war and the revolution - and the… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Revolutionary realism tries to draw the maximum advantage from every situation - that is what makes it revolutionary - but at the… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Only the defeat of the proletariat in Germany in 1923 gave the decisive push to the creation of Stalin's theory of national… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
The boycott of parliamentary institutions on the part of anarchists and semianarchists is dictated by a desire not to submit their weakness… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
In 1925 - 27 the revolution in China was destroyed by the false revolutionary strategy of the Stalinist faction. To this last… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
As for us, we were never concerned with the Kantian-priestly and vegetarian-Quaker prattle about the "sacredness of human life." We were revolutionaries… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
The dialectic is neither fiction nor mysticism, but a science of the forms of our thinking insofar as it is not limited to the… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share
[Joseph] Stalin closes the exposition of these [Leon Trotsky] ideas with the words, "Such are in general the characteristic features of [Vladimir] Lenin's conception… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share
The creative union of the conscious with the unconscious is what one usually calls 'inspiration.' — Leon Trotsky Copy Share
Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government. — Leon Trotsky Copy Share
“As a battle cry against feudalism, the demand for democracy had a progressive character. As time went on, however, the metaphysics of natural law… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share
All the parties of capitalist society, all its moralists and all its sycophants will perish beneath the debris of the impending catastrophe. The only… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share
What shall we call an "immediate possibility"? In 1923 the situation in Germany was profoundly revolutionary, but what was lacking for a victorious revolution… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share
The history of a revolution is for us first of all a history of the forcible entrance of the masses into the realm of… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share
I wrote a study about this question, The Lessons of October, which served as a pretext for my elimination from the government. — Leon Trotsky Copy Share
A program of "disarmament," while imperialist antagonisms survive, is the most pernicious of fictions. Even if it were realized by way of general agreement… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share
In Stalin each [Soviet bureaucrat] easily finds himself. But Stalin also finds in each one a small part of his own spirit. Stalin is… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share
As long as I breathe I hope. As long as I breathe I shall fight for the future, that radiant future, in which man,… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share
If we had had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes. — Leon Trotsky Copy Share
Is it possible to fulfill this task, is it possible to achieve the definite victory of Socialism in one country without the combined efforts… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share
