--- title: "9 Leon Trotsky Quotes by 9 authors" description: "Browse 9 Leon Trotsky quotes by 9 authors. Discover the best Leon Trotsky sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a37/c-wright-mills-9475_democracy_here-s-to-the-day-when-the-complete-work_1815723.jpg" --- > [Here's to the day when the complete works of Leon Trotsky are published and widely distributed in the Soviet Union. On that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-wright-mills/here-s-to-the-day-when-the-complete-works-of-leon-trotsky-are/) [C. Wright Mills](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-wright-mills/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a37/c-wright-mills-9475_democracy_here-s-to-the-day-when-the-complete-work_1815723.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) > [My favourite author is Leon Trotsky - the political philosophy and the way he writes is beautiful, and really relevant, too.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrej-pejic/my-favourite-author-is-leon-trotsky-the-political-philosophy-and-the/) [Andrej Pejic](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrej-pejic/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4f0/andrej-pejic-25206_beautiful_my-favourite-author-is-leon-trotsky-the_1866130.png) > [Leon Trotsky, Stalin's worst enemy, was far and away his most influential 20th-century interpreter, shaping the views of a generation of historians,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-applebaum/leon-trotsky-stalin-s-worst-enemy-was-far-and-away-his-most/) [Anne Applebaum](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-applebaum/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b0d/anne-applebaum-2544_enemy_leon-trotsky-stalin-s-worst-enemy-was-fa_391609.jpg) > [ \[Joseph\] Stalin closes the exposition of these \[Leon Trotsky\] ideas with the words, "Such are in general the characteristic features of \[Vladimir\]… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leon-trotsky/joseph-stalin-closes-the-exposition-of-these-leon-trotsky-ideas-with/) [Leon Trotsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leon-trotsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/240/leon-trotsky-2558_characteristics_joseph-stalin-closes-the-exposition-of-t_33931.jpg) > [ Trotsky found out about him - Leon Trotsky - because A.J.\[Muste\] worked. He was an activist. And he organized the first sit-in… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nat-hentoff/trotsky-found-out-about-him-leon-trotsky-because-a-j-muste-worked-he/) [Nat Hentoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nat-hentoff/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b3c/nat-hentoff-1615_activist_trotsky-found-out-about-him-leon-trotsky_703977.png) > [If you walk into a coffee shop in 1903 Vienna, you might find at the same table the artist Gustav Klimt, Sigmund…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-weiner/if-you-walk-into-a-coffee-shop-in-1903-vienna-you-might-find-at-the/) [Eric Weiner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-weiner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/15a/eric-weiner-1843_art_if-you-walk-into-a-coffee-shop-in-1903-v_713309.png) > [ “\[Jürgen Habermas' obituary to friend and philosopher, Richard Rorty\] One small autobiographical piece by Rorty bears the title 'Wild Orchids and Trotsky.'… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jurgen-habermas/j-rgen-habermas-obituary-to-friend-and-philosopher-richard-rorty-one/) [Jürgen Habermas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jurgen-habermas/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a33/jurgen-habermas-12339_atheism_j-rgen-habermas-obituary-to-friend-and-p_673632.jpg) > [“When I was little, I didn’t understand that you could change a few sounds in a name or a phrase and have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorrie-moore/when-i-was-little-i-didn-t-understand-that-you-could-change-a-few/) [Lorrie Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorrie-moore/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3ab/lorrie-moore-870_billie-holiday_when-i-was-little-i-didn-t-understand-th_1541305.png) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/leon-trotsky/#itemlist", "name": "Leon Trotsky Quotes", "numberOfItems": 9, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Here's to the day when the complete works of Leon Trotsky are published and widely distributed in the Soviet Union. 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In it, Rorty describes how as a youth he ambled around the blooming hillside in north-west New Jersey, and breathed in the stunning odour of the orchids. Around the same time he discovered a fascinating book at the home of his leftist parents, defending Leon Trotsky against Stalin. This was the origin of the vision that the young Rorty took with him to college: philosophy is there to reconcile the celestial beauty of orchids with Trotsky's dream of justice on earth. Nothing is sacred to Rorty the ironist. 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When I told teachers my name was Benna and they said, “Donna who?” I would say, “Donna Gilbert.” I thought close was good enough, that sloppiness was generally built into the language. I thought Bing Crosby and Bill Crosby were the same person. That Buddy Holly and Billie Holiday were the same person. That Leon Trotsky and Leo Tolstoy were the same person. It was a shock for me quite late in life to discover that Jean Cocteau and Jacques Cousteau were not even related. Meaning, if it existed at all, was unstable and could not survive the slightest reshuffling of letters. One gust of wind and Santa became Satan. A slip of the pen and pears turned into pearls. A little interior decorating and the world became her twold, an ungrammatical and unkind assessment of an aging aunt in a singles bar. Add a d to poor, you got droop. It was that way in biology, too. Add a chromosome, get a criminal. Subtract one, get an idiot or a chipmunk. 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