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Trotsky Leon QUOTES

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

  • Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.

  • If we had had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.

  • In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.



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

  • Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.

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

  • Abusive language and swearing are a legacy of slavery, humiliation, and disrespect for human dignity, one’s own and that of other people.

  • “Let 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. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.

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

  • Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.


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