Leon Trotsky Quotes

• Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government.

  Leon Trotsky

  Topics in Religion

  Tags in Ignorance, Government

• Marxism is, above all, a method of analysis.

  Leon Trotsky

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• In a country that is economically backward, the proletariat can take power earlier than in countries where capitalism is advanced.

  Leon Trotsky

  Topics in Uncategorized

• Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal. The bourgeoisie in the long run only changed the form of the pack.

  Leon Trotsky

  Topics in Uncategorized

• It was the supreme expression of the mediocrity of the apparatus that Stalin himself rose to his position.

  Leon Trotsky

  Topics in Uncategorized

• The Soviet Republic needs an army that will be able to fight and conquer.

  Leon Trotsky

  Topics in Uncategorized

• A cossack’s whip wrapped in the parchment of a constitution.

  Leon Trotsky

  Topics in Uncategorized

• You have played out your role. Go where you belong: to the dust heap of history.

  Leon Trotsky

  Topics in Uncategorized

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

  Leon Trotsky

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in War

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

  Leon Trotsky

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Philosophy

• You may not be interested in strategy, but strategy is interested in you.

  Leon Trotsky

• Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a maneuver, a blow with an agreement.

  Leon Trotsky

• There is a limit to the application of democratic methods. You can inquire of all the passengers as to what type of car they like to ride in, but it is impossible to question them as to whether to apply the brakes when the train is at full speed and accident threatens.

  Leon Trotsky

  Topics in Democracy

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

  Leon Trotsky

• The 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.

  Leon Trotsky

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

  Leon Trotsky

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Philosophy, Freedom

• The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

  Leon Trotsky

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

  Leon Trotsky

• Revolutions are always verbose.

  Leon Trotsky

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

  Leon Trotsky

  Topics in Age

  Tags in Unexpected, Old Age

Leon Trotsky (31)

Birth:	7th November, 1879
Death:	21st August, 1940
Nationality:	Russian
Profession:	Founder, Leader, Politician, Theorist

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