--- title: "1 Leon Trotsky Quotes By Gordon G. Chang" description: "1 Leon Trotsky quotes by Gordon G. Chang. Plus more from Gordon G. Chang and more Leon Trotsky sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/450/gordon-g-chang-10335_revolution_we-should-listen-to-leon-trotsky-revolut_1148267.jpg" --- > [“we should listen to Leon Trotsky. “Revolution is impossible until it is inevitable,” he told us.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-g-chang/we-should-listen-to-leon-trotsky-revolution-is-impossible-until-it-is/) [Gordon G. Chang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-g-chang/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/450/gordon-g-chang-10335_revolution_we-should-listen-to-leon-trotsky-revolut_1148267.jpg) ## More by Gordon G. Chang > [“in the words of jurist John Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court, “the power to tax involves the power to destroy.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-g-chang/in-the-words-of-jurist-john-marshall-of-the-u-s-supreme-court-the/) [Gordon G. Chang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-g-chang/) > [“Yet Zhongguancun pales when measured against India’s Bangalore, where government-sponsored development efforts started at about the same time. Today Bangalore produces original product, which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-g-chang/yet-zhongguancun-pales-when-measured-against-india-s-bangalore-where/) [Gordon G. Chang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-g-chang/) > [“the traditionally used ratios of deficit to GDP and total debt to GDP, as computed using the official numbers, grossly overstate how much more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-g-chang/the-traditionally-used-ratios-of-deficit-to-gdp-and-total-debt-to-gdp/) [Gordon G. Chang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-g-chang/) > [“as long as our dreams outweigh our memories, America will be forever young”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-g-chang/as-long-as-our-dreams-outweigh-our-memories-america-will-be-forever/) [Gordon G. Chang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-g-chang/) > [“China will make real progress in the fight against corruption only when prosecution and conviction are separated from politics.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-g-chang/china-will-make-real-progress-in-the-fight-against-corruption-only/) [Gordon G. Chang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-g-chang/) > [“The students who surrendered the square on the morning of June 4 could not begin to imagine, in those sad days of 1989, that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-g-chang/the-students-who-surrendered-the-square-on-the-morning-of-june-4/) [Gordon G. Chang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-g-chang/) > [“Consider these words from Lech Wałęsa: In the past, you could stand with a gun behind a man who had a pick and a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-g-chang/consider-these-words-from-lech-wa-sa-in-the-past-you-could-stand-with/) [Gordon G. Chang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-g-chang/) > [“Before laissez-faire there was wu wei. “Practise not doing and everything will fall into place,” says the Tao Te Ching, Taoism’s primer.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-g-chang/before-laissez-faire-there-was-wu-wei-practise-not-doing-and/) [Gordon G. Chang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-g-chang/) > [“at any given time about 30 percent of the stocks on China’s markets are being manipulated.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-g-chang/at-any-given-time-about-30-percent-of-the-stocks-on-china-s-markets/) [Gordon G. Chang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-g-chang/) > [“Restraint, however, is the essence of modern governance. A government’s self-control permits its people to create, explore, and discover, and that’s what allows a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-g-chang/restraint-however-is-the-essence-of-modern-governance-a-government-s/) [Gordon G. Chang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-g-chang/) > [“Until the tide goes out you don’t know who’s swimming naked. —WARREN BUFFETT”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-g-chang/until-the-tide-goes-out-you-don-t-know-who-s-swimming-naked-warren/) [Gordon G. Chang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-g-chang/) > [“Communism went against life, against man’s fundamental needs, against the need for freedom, the need to be enterprising, to associate freely against the will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-g-chang/communism-went-against-life-against-man-s-fundamental-needs-against/) [Gordon G. Chang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-g-chang/) > [“The Maoist mechanisms of social control have been loosened. A totalitarian state has become merely an authoritarian one.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-g-chang/the-maoist-mechanisms-of-social-control-have-been-loosened-a/) [Gordon G. Chang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-g-chang/) > [“Although China is short of the people it really needs—scientists, economists, doctors, teachers, practically everybody, in fact, except Indian chiefs—it employs its best and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-g-chang/although-china-is-short-of-the-people-it-really-needs-scientists/) [Gordon G. Chang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-g-chang/) > [“Crime wouldn’t pay if the government ran it. —UNKNOWN”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-g-chang/crime-wouldn-t-pay-if-the-government-ran-it-unknown/) [Gordon G. 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