Leon Trotsky

Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression and violence, and enjoy it to the full.

Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression and violence, and enjoy it to the full.

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

As for us, we were never concerned with the Kantian-priestly and vegetarian-Quaker prattle about the “sacredness of human life.” We were revolutionaries in opposition, and have remained revolutionaries in power. To make the individual sacred we must destroy the social order which crucifies him. And this problem can only be solved by blood and iron.

As for us, we were never concerned with the Kantian-priestly and vegetarian-Quaker prattle about the “sacredness of human life.” We were revolutionaries in opposition, and have remained revolutionaries in power. To make the individual sacred we must destroy the social order which crucifies him. And this problem can only be solved by blood and iron.

Root out the counterrevolutionaries without mercy, lock up suspicious characters in concentration camps... Shirkers will be shot, regardless of past service.

Root out the counterrevolutionaries without mercy, lock up suspicious characters in concentration camps... Shirkers will be shot, regardless of past service.

If I am not I, then who is I?

Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into a rut every now and then. And then you must hoist yourself out of the rut by your own bootstraps.

In a revolution, the people are always on the side of the stronger.

The bureaucracy, which has become an end in itself, has been replaced by another bureaucracy, which has become an end in itself.

Fascism is a caricature of Bolshevism.

Where force is necessary, it is justified.

The old society does not perish until it has exhausted all its creative possibilities.

Terror as a demonstration of the will and strength of the working class is historically justified.

The party that creates a revolution is not the one that leads it.

If there is a war, we shall not sit on the fence.

The working class cannot emancipate itself without freeing all the oppressed classes.

The party is not a debating society.

The permanent revolution, in the Marxian sense, means that the revolution does not stop at the democratic stage but goes over to the socialist stage.