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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There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
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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 State is the coldest of all cold monsters, and coldly it tells lies, and this lie drones on from its mouth: 'I, the State, am the people'.
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Some of the most unhappy artists in the most difficult situations can create awe-inspiring works of art.
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We used to have food picked and used to have houses built and we used to have chicken properly processed and it was Americans that did it. If we are going to continue to utilize those goods, then what's going to have to happen is that the employers are going to have to elevate the wages in order to attract American workers to do those jobs.
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Once you start messing with psychological well-being, we get more and more messed up.
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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.
