Leon Trotsky

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

?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.

The dynamic of revolutionary events is directly determined by swift, intense, and passionate changes in the psychology of classes which have already formed themselves before the revolution.

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

From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.

The masses go into a revolution not with a prepared plan of social reconstruction, but with a sharp feeling that they cannot endure the old regime. Only the guiding layers of a class have a political program, and even this still requires the test of events and the approval of the masses.

You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

The most crucial use of knowledge and education is to understand the importance of developing a good heart.

Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

When girls are educated, their countries become stronger and more prosperous.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

College is part of the American Dream. It shouldn’t be part of a financial nightmare for families.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car, but if he has a university education he may steal the whole railroad.

All the learnin’ my father paid for was a bit o’ birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends.

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

That man is best educated who knows the greatest number of things that are so, and who can do the greatest number of things to help and heal the world.

Community colleges are certainly one of America’s best-kept secrets.

One of the things that make community colleges so special is they do not pick and choose their students – they work with all students.

I mean, look, teachers don’t do their job for the money, obviously, because we pay them ridiculously little amounts for what they put in. Most of them come out of their own pocket for materials and things to help the children and all that.

The more you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.