Leon Trotsky Quotes
If we close our eyes to the dark sides of the workers' State which we have helped to create, we shall never reach socialism.
Quotes to Explore
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We approach closer and closer to socialism.
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Homeland or death! Socialism or death! We shall overcome!
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I love the perspective afforded by having lived five decades, a degree of bemused and muted calm, a relief from the insistent demands of a turbulent ego and rampant ambition. I'd love to stay here forever. But something tells me that 50 is a sunny idyll, a temporary state of grace, a golden afternoon.
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Greed is the lack of confidence of one's own ability to create.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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Segregation, in a sense, helped create and maintain black solidarity.
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Suppose I put polka dots all over my body and then cover my background completely with polka dots. The polka dots on my body, merging with those in the background, create an optically strange scene.
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I think the CG is an instrument to create reality. I don't think it's an instrument to create a heightened reality.
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The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it?
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The highest state is laughter.
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Democracy is the road to socialism.
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You have to create something from nothing.
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We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution.
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But Socialism, alone, can bring self-determination of their peoples.
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Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.
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We're not going to create a more equal society by not prodding at it, are we?
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You don't create jobs by passing bills, you create jobs by cutting taxes.
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My pleasure was to copy, not to create.
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The goal of an artist is to create the definitive work that cannot be surpassed.
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Peace and the survival of life on earth as we know it are threatened by human activities which lack a commitment to humanitarian values. Destruction of nature and nature's resources result from ignorance, greed and lack of respect for the earth's living things.
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I am not a person and I am not an animal. There is something I am here for something I must do before I can go.
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Unfortunately, life unfolds as it does, and you can't do everything at the same time, and you can't do some things if you can't spend the time.
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We are a non-utopian political movement. We are not interested in going nowhere. We are not interested in going to some place we have never been, which we will get to after the revolution because people will be different. The crucial operating premise of the Free Software Movement as a revolutionary politic is: Proof of Concept plus Running code. Here. We did it already. It's sort of working. If you take a copy and help us fix it, it could really be something. Here. You want it? Take it. We like it. It's Free.
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If we close our eyes to the dark sides of the workers' State which we have helped to create, we shall never reach socialism.
