Leon Trotsky

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

…capitalism does live by crises and booms, just as a human being lives by inhaling and exhaling.

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.

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.

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

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.

There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.

He that does good for good’s sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.

In this magical hour, as the black ink sky fades to forget-me-not grey and the Cyprus trees emerge from the shadows, I tune in to my heart. In clarity, I choose to step into freedom to bring lightness of being and to be love.

So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.

The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist.

Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, politics or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies. Broadly speaking, there are none but corn-pone opinions. And broadly speaking, Corn-Pone stands for Self-Approval. Self-approval is acquired mainly from the approval of other people. The result is Conformity.

A jest often decides matters of importance more effectual and happily than seriousness.

When you place yourself in a position to help another, you will discover your greater capabilities.

Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. He that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth, lulls his age with the milder business of saving it.

Nothing is real.

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.