Leon Trotsky
11 quotations
The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction.
Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation.
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.
Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.
If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.
Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.
Revolutions are always verbose.
In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.
Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.
Under all conditions well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.