Leon Trotsky

?The party that leans upon the workers but serves the bourgeoisie, in the period of the greatest sharpening of the class struggle, cannot but sense the smells wafted from the waiting grave.

Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a maneuver, a blow with an agreement.

Our planet is being turned into a filthy and evil-smelling imperialist barrack.

Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction.

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

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.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

Against my protests a mausoleum was built on the Red Square, a monument unbecoming and offensive to the revolutionary consciousness.

The Holocaust was a crime without parallel in history, and I am proud to launch an initiative to raise awareness of and to tackle anti-Semitism in all its forms. This is the start of an important journey and we all have a part to play.

History teaches us that unity is strength, and cautions us to submerge and overcome our differences in the quest for common goals, to strive, with all our combined strength, for the path to true African brotherhood and unity.

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.

Kings are the slaves of history.

England is nothing but the last ward of the European madhouse, and quite possibly it will prove to be the ward for particularly violent cases.

To persons uninstructed in natural history, their country or seaside stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall.

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.

He who does not understand history is doomed to repeat it.

Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.

We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.

History has shown there are no invincible armies.

Americans Never Quit. We never surrender. We never hide from history. We Make History.