Vivid Leon Trotsky quotes

“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.” ― Leon Trotsky, Diary in Exile, 1935 tags: cynicism, life, misery, weakness183 likes Like “You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.” ― Leon Trotsky tags: war172 likes Like “A means can be justified only by its end. But the end in its turn needs to be justified.” ― Leon Trotsky, Their Morals and Ours tags: end-justifies-the-means140 likes Like “Tell me anyway--Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies.” ― Leon Trotsky 80 likes Like “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 The old principle: who does not work shall not eat, has been replaced by a new one: who does not obey shall not eat.” ― Leon Trotsky tags: communism65 likes Like “As long as human labor power, and, consequently, life itself, remain articles of sale and purchase, of exploitation and robbery, the principle of the “sacredness of human life” remains a shameful lie, uttered with the object of keeping the oppressed slaves in their chains.” ― Leon Trotsky tags: ethics, morality, politics, violence, wage-labor60 likes Like “Natasha has just come up to the window from the courtyard and opened it wider so that the air may enter more freely into my room. I can see the bright green strip of grass beneath the wall, and the clear blue sky above the wall, and sunlight everywhere. Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression and violence, and enjoy it to the full.” ― Leon Trotsky 53 likes Like