Awful Quote by Leon Trotsky Download Open image “From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.” — Leon Trotsky ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Awful Myth Patriotic People Reality
There's the hypothesis that things just keep happening to Russians, things that keep turning them into the same kind of subjects, as opposed to… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
I feel very uneasy with a lot of aspects of the Russian life and the Russian people. — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
We Russians have assigned ourselves no other task in life but the cultivation of our own personalities, and when we're barely past childhood, we… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
The Russian people, at least the ones I know, have pride in being a Russian. And, therefore, they want to be taken seriously in… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
I think Russians today have a distorted picture of capitalism, liberal democracy and market economy. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
The Russians have succeeded in one thing: they have sold the world the idea that they represent socialism and the ideas of Marx,and we… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The Russians are extreme people: they are generous but crazy at the same time. They always have something to say, and I really like… — Carine Roitfeld Copy Share Image
The way I understand it, the Russians are sort of a combination of evil and incompetence... sort of like the Post Office with tanks. — Emo Philips Copy Share Image
The great drama of Russian history has been between its state and society. Put simply, Russia has always had too much state and not… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
In Russia, the people have been brought up tough. It used to be the Soviet Union. The thing everybody thinks of when they think… — Artem Lobov Copy Share Image
I think that, you know, Russia is full of themselves. They've always been full of themselves. But that's - it's more of a facade… — Nikki Haley 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
It must be that I am dreaming, and that I shall awaken in a moment to see that awful knife descending toward my heart-… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
I spent two years in Palo Alto - what an awful, suffocating place for those of us who don't care about yoga, yogurts and… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
Layla brought her arms around herself, no doubt because she was remembering the feel of another, stronger set. "I have wanted to, but he… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
You've seen the first issue and what happened in the last page. Some pretty awful stuff. I don't know why I seem to be… — Declan Shalvey Copy Share Image
It is not like studying German, where you mull along, in a groping, uncertain way, for thirty years; and at last, just as you… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful… — Pamela Stephenson Copy Share Image
When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven't experienced an awful… — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
No one with a bad tie is getting my vote. Some Lib Dems wear the most shockingly awful ties. — Freddie Fox Copy Share Image
The blessed Religion revealed in the word of God will remain an eternal and awful monument to prove that the best Institution may be… — George Washington Copy Share Image