Leon Trotsky Quotes
The clearer and deeper the public opinion of the world, in the first instance the opinion of the working masses, will understand the contradictions and the difficulties of the socialist development of an isolated country, the higher will it appreciate the results achieved. The less it identifies the fundamental methods of Socialism with the zigzags and errors of the Soviet bureaucracy, the less will be the danger that, by the inevitable revelation of these errors and of their consequences, the authority, not only of the present ruling group, but of the workers' State itself, may decline.
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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Truth in our society often takes a back seat to securing gainful consequences.
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Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.
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I've never been married and I've no more desire to be married now than I ever have. I hate bureaucracy and I am not religious.
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Mehlis will go all the way and we want to go all the way. These arrests show that no matter how high the perpetrators are, they will face the consequences of what they did.
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After realizing that we would eventually be able to build molecular machines that could arrange atoms to form virtually any pattern that we wanted, I saw that an awful lot of consequences followed from that.
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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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Democracy is the road to socialism.
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We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution.
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The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
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Most of us tend to be swayed by what we read. Judges are not superhuman. They, too, are mortals. This is why they have to be exceptionally careful in rendering decisions, which cause unintended consequences.
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Because the world is in economic recession, which worsened since this drama happened, and our country will bear the burden of all of these consequences.
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The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.
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Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.
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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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Socialism, as I understand it, is a system of democracy. Without democracy, there is no socialism.
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No politician in a European sense is happy with 26 million people unemployed. Nobody can be happy with 6 to 9 million young people unemployed. You have to give them hope and confidence and a sense of inspiration that the European process is actually about people, not about bureaucracy.
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The arrogance of the young is a direct result of not having known enough consequences. The turkey that every day greedily approaches the farmer who tosses him grain is not wrong. It is just that no one ever told him about Thanksgiving.
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There's so many great songs already written, it's kind of really wonderful you don't have to write your own.
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So, it was really important that I go do the necessary research. In doing the research, I spent time with a lot of medics and women down at Fort Bliss. I went through an intensive medical course there, with other medics. And then, I really sat down with all of the women that had been deployed, or were getting ready to deploy again. The common thread for them was family, and what a struggle it was for them to come home and face their children and flip a switch.
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The clearer and deeper the public opinion of the world, in the first instance the opinion of the working masses, will understand the contradictions and the difficulties of the socialist development of an isolated country, the higher will it appreciate the results achieved. The less it identifies the fundamental methods of Socialism with the zigzags and errors of the Soviet bureaucracy, the less will be the danger that, by the inevitable revelation of these errors and of their consequences, the authority, not only of the present ruling group, but of the workers' State itself, may decline.
