Leon Trotsky

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

Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.

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

Events can neither be regarded as a series of adventures nor strung on the thread of a preconceived moral. They must obey their own laws.

Fascism is a caricature of Jacobinism.

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

Already know you that which you need.

Some will always be above others. Destroy the inequality today, and it will appear again tomorrow.

For too long I have silenced my heart, that now, when I give it the opportunity to speak, it no longer remembers its voice. Locked away, it forgot what it’s like to be free; to roam. Imprisoned within loneliness, I fear Stockholm syndrome has developed.

It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like as long as somebody loves you.

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Of all God’s creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.

A good conscience is a continual feast.

No question is so difficult to answer as that which the answer is obvious.

What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn’t deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.

Birth and death are so closely related that one could not destroy either without destroying the other at the same time. It is extinction that makes creation possible.

We do what we must, and call it by the best names.

Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim.

There is no daily chore so trivial that it cannot be made important by skipping it two days running.

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.