Leon Trotsky Quotes

"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 in Life quotes.

"You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on / into the dustbin of history!"
-Leon Trotsky

"If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes."
-Leon Trotsky

"Socialism needs democracy like the human body needs oxygen."
-Leon Trotsky

"Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies."
-Leon Trotsky

"Revolutions are always verbose."
-Leon Trotsky

"Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever."
-Leon Trotsky

"Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man."
-Leon Trotsky

"The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end."
-Leon Trotsky

"There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances."
-Leon Trotsky