Leon Trotsky Quotes

We seek to uncoverbehind the events changes in the collective consciousness. We reject wholesale ref...

Let us not forget that revolutions are accomplished through people, although they be nameless. Mater...

The boycott of parliamentary institutions on the part of anarchists and semianarchists is dictated b...

Generally speaking, by the way, that is the moral of the opponents of violence in politics: they ren...

Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's ...

Every historical form of society is in its foundation a form of organization of labor. While every p...

As a general rule, man strives to avoid labor. Love for work is not at all an inborn characteristic:...

With all due respect to all philistines, the dictatorship of the proletariat does just consist in "g...

Terror is a powerful means of policy and one would have to be a hypocrite not to understand this.

The basis of bureaucratic rule is the poverty of society in objects of consumption, with the resulti...

Workers – men and women – of all countries, place yourselves under the banner of the Fourth Internat...

The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.

There is a limit to the application of democratic methods. You can inquire of all the passengers as ...

Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation.

Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.

Fascism is a caricature of Jacobinism.

Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynici...

As long as human labor power, and, consequently, life itself, remain articles of sale and purchase, ...

The bourgeoisie, which far surpasses the proletariat in the completeness and irreconcilibility of it...

The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themsel...

‎The party that leans upon the workers but serves the bourgeoisie, in the period of the greatest sha...

In a country where the sole employer is the State, opposition means death by slow starvation. The ol...

Similar (of course, far from identical) irritations in similar conditions call out similar reflexes;...

[Letter to his wife, Natalia Sedova]In addition to the happiness of being a fighter for the cause of...

City of prose and fantasy, of capitalist automation, its streets a triumph of cubism, its moral phil...

There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.

The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of...

The artist can not serve his struggle for freedom unless he subjectively assimilates the social cont...

Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.

...capitalism does live by crises and booms, just as a human being lives by inhaling and exhaling.

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.

Life is not an easy matter…. You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicis...

In the meantime, the first characteristic of a really revolutionary party is -- to be able to look r...

The principles of liberalism can have a real existence only in conjunction with a police system. Ana...

For the information of these “friends” who consider themselves called to defend against us the role ...

Transcending class distinctions, the speaker [Stalin] portrays the relation between the bourgeoisie ...