Leon Trotsky

Abusive language and swearing are a legacy of slavery, humiliation, and disrespect for human dignity, one’s own and that of other people.

Revolutions are always verbose.

Tell me anyway–Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies.

The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.

Between his consciousness and events stood always that impenetrable medium – indifference.

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

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.

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!

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

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

Kings are the slaves of history.

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

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

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.

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.

The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces – in nature, in society, in man himself.

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.

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.

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

History has shown there are no invincible armies.