Leon Trotsky

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

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

?The party that leans upon the workers but serves the bourgeoisie, in the period of the greatest sharpening of the class struggle, cannot but sense the smells wafted from the waiting grave.

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

Revolutions are always verbose.

I was not prepared to play the role of singer in the camp of the warriors

People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.

For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.

Knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

It is only through labour and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage; that we move on to better things.

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt.

The stars are the apexes of what triangles!

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It’s like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won’t fatten the dog.

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it.

We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.