Leon Trotsky Quotes

• Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravity.

  Leon Trotsky

• Life is not an easy matter… You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.

  Leon Trotsky

• 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.

  Leon Trotsky

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

  Leon Trotsky

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

  Leon Trotsky

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

  Leon Trotsky

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

  Leon Trotsky

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

  Leon Trotsky

• From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.

  Leon Trotsky

• Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction.

  Leon Trotsky

• England 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

Leon Trotsky (31)

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

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