Leon Trotsky Quotes

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• Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government.
• Root out the counterrevolutionaries without mercy, lock up suspicious characters in concentration camps... Shirkers will be shot, regardless of past service.
• Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.
• If you cannot convince a Fascist, acquaint his head with the pavement.
• Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures. Everything is better than some things and worse than others. Which you choose to compare…
• Everyone has a right to be stupid, but Comrade McDonald abuses the privilege.
• Transcending class distinctions, the speaker [Stalin] portrays the relation between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat as a mere division of labor. The workers and soldiers…
• Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression, and violence, and enjoy it to the full.
• The struggle against war and its social source, capitalism, presupposes direct, active, unequivocal support to the oppressed colonial peoples in their struggles and wars against…
• To renounce the conquest of power is voluntarily to leave the power with those who wield it, the exploiters. The essence of every revolution consisted…
• The history of a revolution is for us first of all a history of the forcible entrance of the masses into the realm of rulership…
• As long as I breathe I hope. As long as I breathe I shall fight for the future, that radiant future, in which man, strong…
• The Federated Republic of Europe-the United States of Europe-that is what must be. National autonomy no longer suffices. Economic evolution demands the abolition of national…
• If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any…
• Nowhere else did repressions, purges, suppressions, and all other kinds of bureaucratic hooliganism in general acquire such horrifying scope as in Ukraine, in the struggle…
• Actually, the decision was not only expedient but necessary. The severity of this summary justice showed the world that we would continue to fight mercilessly,…
• The task of the proletariat is to create a still more powerful fatherland with a far greater power of resistance, the Republican United States of…
• Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.
• He who slanders the victim aids the executioner.
• As for us, we were never concerned with the Kantian-priestly and vegetarian-Quaker prattle about the sacredness of human life.

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