Leon Trotsky Quotes
In a country where the sole employer is the State, opposition means death by slow starvation. The old principle: who does not work shall not eat, has been replaced by a new one: who does not obey shall not eat.
Quotes to Explore
-
I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
-
I'm Greek. My body produces feta cheese.
-
Inevitably, I think the people that want to work with me are also the people that I want to work with.
-
A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
-
The interest on our debt is going to collapse this country.
-
As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.
-
I am the kind of person who does not like to carry baggage. In fact, I don't go back and listen to my own music. I believe in closing chapters and moving forward. That's what gives me peace.
-
Any athlete has massive reserves in their body and their emotional landscape.
-
I'm a plodder, one foot in front of the other. Life is all about understanding that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. And it's your ability with how you deal with that adversity that ultimately affects your success.
-
Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.
-
The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.
-
I really saw myself as the quintessential Cinderella. I think that's when I really thought about how I wanted to do something else and get away from all that.
-
I eat the same foods almost every day. I have my favorites like Filipino beef broth, chicken soup with lots and lots of rice.
-
Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it.
-
I have a paralyzing fear of snakes.
-
Through the program, they get the basics of what it takes to train.
-
It's when children are 15, 16 or 17 that they decide whether they want to be a doctor, an engineer, a politician or go to the Mars or moon. That is the time they start having a dream, and that's the time you can work on them. You can help them shape their dreams.
-
You will seek not a near but a distant objective, and you will not be satisfied with what you may have done.
-
My father put it right when he said: 'I don't get ulcers. I give ulcers.'
-
Hitler also anticipated modern economic policy . . . by recognizing that a rapid approach to full employment was only possible if it was combined with wage and price controls. That a nation oppressed by economic fear would respond to Hitler as Americans did to F.D.R. is not surprising.
-
Even in Death they had a thing in common, Pain.
-
What really kills me—it really rips me up—is when people think I’m abrasive, inconsiderate or ungrateful because I don’t go outside in a bikini and wave to the paparazzi. Come on!
-
You are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing. But in a way we all have a Mona. We all have inside ourselves a woman who walks alone on the road. In all women there is something in revolt that is not expressed.
-
In a country where the sole employer is the State, opposition means death by slow starvation. The old principle: who does not work shall not eat, has been replaced by a new one: who does not obey shall not eat.
