The Soviet State does not need either illusions or camouflage. It can claim only that world authority which is confirmed by the… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
If we close our eyes to the dark sides of the workers' State which we have helped to create, we shall never… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
The pillars of Hercules of the United States are vulgarity and stupidity. — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Where the sole employer is the State, opposition means death by slow starvation — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
The United States is not only the strongest, but also the most terrified country. — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
In a country where the sole employer is the State, opposition means death by slow starvation. The old principle: who does not… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
The task of the proletariat is to create a still more powerful fatherland with a far greater power of resistance, the Republican… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
In Russia itself the proletariat conquered in spite of the fact that there was no Soviet State in existence at the time… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Only when the kulak refused to deliver grain to the State did [Joseph] Stalin, under the pressure of the Left Opposition, accomplish… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
The Federated Republic of Europe-the United States of Europe-that is what must be. National autonomy no longer suffices. Economic evolution demands the… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
The clearer and deeper the public opinion of the world, in the first instance the opinion of the working masses, will understand… — 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
![“Only when the kulak refused to deliver grain to the State did [Joseph] Stalin, under the pressure of the Left Opposition, accomplish a sharp turn. Being the empiricist that he is, he moved, to the opposite extreme, and set as a task for two or three years the collectivization of all the peasantry…” quote by Leon Trotsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f5b/leon-trotsky-2558_accomplish_only-when-the-kulak-refused-to-deliver-g_958413.jpg)
