Leon Trotsky

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

Revolutions are always verbose.

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.

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

Life is not an easy matter… You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.

In a country where the sole employer is the State, opposition means death by slow starvation. The old principle: who does not work shall not eat, has been replaced by a new one: who does not obey shall not eat.

Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspision that he is trying to be funny.

Progress is a new season and the rule of progress is everything in its season.

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered – either by themselves or by others.

I like to surprise myself.

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.

For them that think death’s honesty won’t fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely.

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.

It’s not for me. I tried human flesh and it’s too salty for my taste.

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.

People create their own experiences.

I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

Anything is better than lies and deceit!

Listen to the birds and don’t hate nobody.

I don’t have an alarm clock. If someone needs to wake me up, then I have my BlackBerry next to me.