As long as I breathe I hope. As long as I breathe I shall fight for the future, that radiant future, in… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
As a general rule, man strives to avoid labor. Love for work is not at all an inborn characteristic: it is created… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Workers – men and women – of all countries, place yourselves under the banner of the Fourth International. It is the banner… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Not only in peasant homes, but also in city skyscrapers, there lives alongside the twentieth century, the thirteenth. A hundred million people… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Let us not forget that revolutions are accomplished through people, although they be nameless. Materialism does not ignore the feeling, thinking, and… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Terror, as the demonstration of the will and strength of the working class, is historically justified, precisely because the proletariat was able… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Man will become immeasurably stronger, wiser, and subtler; his body will become more harmonious, his movements more rhythmic, his voice more musical.… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
As long as I breathe I hope. As long as I breathe I shall fight for the future, that radiant future, in… — 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
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 Image
[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 Image
The creative union of the conscious with the unconscious is what one usually calls 'inspiration.' — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government. — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image