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There is a limit to the application of democratic methods. You can inquire of all the passengers as to what type of car they like to ride in, but it is impossible to question them as to whether to apply the brakes when the train is at full speed and accident threatens.
Leon Trotsky
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Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.
Leon Trotsky
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You may not be interested in strategy, but strategy is interested in you.
Leon Trotsky
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Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravity.
Leon Trotsky
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In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.
Leon Trotsky
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There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.
Leon Trotsky
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If we had had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.
Leon Trotsky
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If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.
Leon Trotsky
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Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.
Leon Trotsky
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Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
Leon Trotsky
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Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.
Leon Trotsky
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Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.
Leon Trotsky
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The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
Leon Trotsky
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