Leon TrotskyHistory has different yardsticks for the cruelty of the Northerners and the cruelty of the Southerners in the Civil War. A slave-owner who through cunning and violence shackles a … ▶371Humor
Leon TrotskyYou are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on - into the dustbin of history! ✨ History of the Russian Rev… ▶362Life
Leon TrotskyIf you cannot convince a Fascist, acquaint his head with the pavement.354Love
Leon TrotskyEverything is relative in this world, where change alone endures. ✨ Leon Trotsky (2012). The Revolution Betrayed, p.79, Courier Corporation376Reading
Leon TrotskyAbusive language and swearing are a legacy of slavery, humiliation, and disrespect for human dignity, one’s own and that of other people. ✨ Leon Trotsky (1973). Problems of … ▶354HumanityLife
Leon TrotskyThe United States is not only the strongest, but also the most terrified country. ✨ Leon Trotsky (2012). My Life: An Attempt at an Autobiography, p.579, Courier Corporation<… ▶333LifePolitics
Leon TrotskyAs long as I breathe I hope. As long as I breathe I shall fight for the future, that radiant future, in which man, strong and beautiful, will become master of the drifting stream … ▶333HopeTime
Leon TrotskyThe history of a revolution is for us first of all a history of the forcible entrance of the masses into the realm of rulership over their own destiny. ✨ Leon Trotsky, Max E… ▶333Reading
Leon TrotskyRevolutions are always verbose. ✨ Leon Trotsky, Max Eastman (2008). History of the Russian Revolution, p.581, Haymarket Books322Reading
Leon TrotskyThe fundamental flaw of vulgar thought lies in the fact that it wishes to content itself with motionless imprints of a reality which consists of eternal motion. ✨ Leon Trots… ▶378PoliticsThoughtTruth
Leon TrotskyEngland is nothing but the last ward of the European madhouse, and quite possibly it will prove to be the ward for particularly violent cases. ✨ Leon Trotsky (1974). Collect… ▶367Thought
Leon TrotskyThe fall of the present bureaucratic dictatorship [in the Soviet Union], if it were not replaced by a new socialist power, would thus mean a return to capitalist relations with a … ▶368PoliticsTime
Leon TrotskyWhere force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. ✨ What Next? (1932) ch. 14379Politics
Leon TrotskyTo renounce the conquest of power is voluntarily to leave the power with those who wield it, the exploiters. The essence of every revolution consisted and consists in putting a ne… ▶3710LifePolitics
Leon TrotskyIdeas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever. ✨ Leon Trotsky (2012). My Life: An Attempt at an Autobiography, p.432, Courier Corporation369LifeThought
Leon TrotskyIn inner-party politics, these methods lead, as we shall yet see, to this: the party organization substitutes itself for the party, the central committee substitutes itself for th… ▶293Politics
Leon TrotskyCity of prose and fantasy, of capitalist automation, its streets a triumph of cubism, its moral philosophy that of the dollar. New York impressed me tremendously because, more tha… ▶261Philosophy
Leon TrotskyOld age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man. ✨ Diary in Exile (1959) 8 May 1935316Love
Leon TrotskyOur planet is being turned into a filthy and evil-smelling imperialist barrack.274Death
Leon TrotskyReligions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government.241Politics
Leon TrotskyAll the parties of capitalist society, all its moralists and all its sycophants will perish beneath the debris of the impending catastrophe. The only party that will survive is th… ▶307HumanityReading
Leon TrotskyThe historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself. 285Humanity
Leon TrotskyThe struggle against war and its social source, capitalism, presupposes direct, active, unequivocal support to the oppressed colonial peoples in their struggles and wars against i… ▶308Humanity
Leon TrotskyInsurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.231Politics
Leon TrotskyFrom being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality. ✨ Leon Trotsky, Max Eastman (2008). History of the Russian Revolution, p.764, Haymarket Books319HumanityReadingTruth
Leon TrotskyWhere the sole employer is the state, [opposition] means death by slow starvation. ✨ The Revolution Betrayed: What Is the Soviet Union and Where Is It Going?by Leon Trotsky,… ▶254DeathPolitics
Leon TrotskyTell me anyway--Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies.232Truth
Leon TrotskyLet a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires.… ▶287Thought
Leon TrotskyThe end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end. ✨ When It Comes to Personal Transformation, Could the Ends Be the Means? by Russell Bisho… ▶243Philosophy
Leon TrotskyEverything is relative in this world, where change alone endures. Everything is better than some things and worse than others. Which you choose to compare your experiences and sit… ▶211LifeSadness
