“The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when theyare thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.”
Leon Trotsky
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“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 tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant.”
Leon Trotsky
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“Under all conditions well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.”
Leon Trotsky
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“Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.”
Leon Trotsky
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“In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.”
Leon Trotsky
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“Revolutions are always verbose.”
Leon Trotsky
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“Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.”
Leon Trotsky
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“If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.”
Leon Trotsky
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“Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.”
Leon Trotsky
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“Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.”
Leon Trotsky
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“Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation.”
Leon Trotsky
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“Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction.”
Leon Trotsky
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“The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.”
Leon Trotsky
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