Leon Trotsky

Let us not forget that revolutions are accomplished through people, although they be nameless. Materialism does not ignore the feeling, thinking, and acting man, but explains him.

The United States is not only the strongest, but also the most terrified country.

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

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

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

If one cannot get along without a mirror, even in shaving oneself, how can one reconstruct oneself or one’s life, without seeing oneself in the mirror of literature?

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

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

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

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.

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

Kings are the slaves of history.

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.

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

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

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

How incredible our ancestors were. The first astrophysicists, scientists, physicians, mathematicians, architects, creators of so much of the world as we know it. It’s a blessing to know what cloth you’re cut from!

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

History has shown there are no invincible armies.

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.

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.