15 Top Leon Trotsky Quotes You Need To Know

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

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

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.

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man.

Abusive language and swearing are a legacy of slavery, humiliation, and disrespect for human dignity, one’s own and that of other people.

You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.

The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

You may not be interested in strategy, but strategy is interested in you.

Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.

Revolutions are always verbose.

The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.

Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction.

Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.

Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravity.

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

The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself.

Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.