Leon Trotsky Quotes

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• Tell me anyway--Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies.
• As long as human labor power, and, consequently, life itself, remain articles of sale and purchase, of exploitation and robbery, the principle of the “sacredness…
• In a country where the sole employer is the State, opposition means death by slow starvation. The old principle: who does not work shall not…
• Natasha has just come up to the window from the courtyard and opened it wider so that the air may enter more freely into my…
• Abusive language and swearing are a legacy of slavery, humiliation, and disrespect for human dignity, one’s own and that of other people.
• ‎The party that leans upon the workers but serves the bourgeoisie, in the period of the greatest sharpening of the class struggle, cannot but sense…
• The bourgeoisie, which far surpasses the proletariat in the completeness and irreconcilibility of its class consciousness, is vitally interested in imposing its moral philosophy upon…
• ...capitalism does live by crises and booms, just as a human being lives by inhaling and exhaling.
• The United States is not only the strongest, but also the most terrified country.
• Our planet is being turned into a filthy and evil-smelling imperialist barrack.
• Man will become immeasurably stronger, wiser, and subtler; his body will become more harmonious, his movements more rhythmic, his voice more musical. The forms of…
• If we had had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.
• The dialectic is neither fiction or mysticism, but a science of the forms of our thinking insofar as it is not limited to the daily…
• The dialectic is neither fiction nor mysticism, but a science of the forms of our thinking insofar as it is not limited to the daily…
• Dialectical thought is related to vulgar thinking in the same way that a motion picture is related to a still photograph. The motion picture does…

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