The struggle against war and its social source, capitalism, presupposes direct, active, unequivocal support to the oppressed colonial peoples in their struggles and wars against imperialism. A ‘neutral’ position is tantamount to support of imperialism.

— Leon Trotsky

Leon Trotsky Quotes

The revenge of history is more powerful than the revenge of the most powerful General Secretary.

— Leon Trotsky

The United States is not only the strongest, but also the most terrified country.

— Leon Trotsky

City of prose and fantasy, of capitalist automation, its streets a triumph of cubism, its moral philosophy that of the dollar. New York impressed me tremendously because, more than any other city, it is the fullest expression of our modern age.

— Leon Trotsky

Where the sole employer is the State, opposition means death by slow starvation.

— Leon Trotsky

Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures. Everything is better than some things and worse than others. Which you choose to compare your experiences and situation with determines whether you will be happy and grateful or sad and jealous.

— Leon Trotsky

The history of a revolution is for us first of all a history of the forcible entrance of the masses into the realm of rulership over their own destiny.

— Leon Trotsky

Fascism is a caricature of Jacobinism.

— Leon Trotsky

The fundamental flaw of vulgar thought lies in the fact that it wishes to content itself with motionless imprints of a reality which consists of eternal motion.

— Leon Trotsky

The creative union of the conscious with the unconscious is what one usually calls ‘inspiration.’

— Leon Trotsky

The task of the proletariat is to create a still more powerful fatherland with a far greater power of resistance, the Republican United States of Europe, as the foundation of the United States of the World.

— Leon Trotsky

In inner-party politics, these methods lead, as we shall yet see, to this: the party organization substitutes itself for the party, the central committee substitutes itself for the organization, and, finally, a dictator substitutes himself for the central committee.

— Leon Trotsky

I feel here that this time they have succeeded.

— Leon Trotsky

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

— 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

Revolutions are always verbose.

— Leon Trotsky

One of the most surprising things in life is the sudden realization that one has become old.

— Leon Trotsky

The usages and methods of warfare are thus determined by changing circumstances and, therefore, they themselves can in nowise be eternal.

— Leon Trotsky

When one runs with the wolves, one must howl with the pack.

— 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

Against my protests a mausoleum was built on the Red Square, a monument unbecoming and offensive to the revolutionary consciousness.

— Leon Trotsky
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