Leon Trotsky

Fascism is a caricature of Jacobinism.

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

Everyone has the right to be stupid on occasion, but Comrade Macdonald abuses the privilege.

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

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.

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

I want our young people to know that they matter, that they belong. So don’t be afraid. You hear me, young people? Don’t be afraid. Be focused. Be determined. Be hopeful. Be empowered. Empower yourself with a good education. Then get out there and use that education to build a country worthy of your boundless promise. Lead by example with hope; never fear.

There are on occasions, as we know, when resources are abundant, but they are expended so incompetently that the advantage is nullified.

There is no longer anything I can fear. There is nothing the government has not done to me. There isn’t any pain I haven’t known.

Sometimes when you stand face to face with someone, you cannot see his face.

Oh my goodness gracious, what you can buy off the Internet in terms of overhead photography. A trained ape can know an awful lot of what is going on in this world, just by punching on his mouse, for a relatively modest cost.

The U.S. will not permit constructive programs in its own domains, so it must ensure that they are destroyed elsewhere to terminate ‘the threat of a good example’.

There was a study that was reported in the MIT Technology Review [in Dec 2015] saying that [in the middle latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere] the current average temperature rise is equivalent to moving south about ten meters a day. That’s pretty fast.

Of course there are differences, but they are not fundamental. Nobody should have any illusions. The United States has essentially a one-party system and the ruling party is the business party.

Kim Jong-un speaks and his people sit up at attention. I want my people to do the same.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

It is no coincidence that the century of total war coincided with the century of central banking.

You don’t get to be a respected intellectual by uttering truisms in monosyllables.

We need business to understand its social responsibility, that the main task and objective for a business is not to generate extra income and to become rich and transfer the money abroad, but to look and evaluate what a businessman has done for the country, for the people, on whose account he or she has become so rich.

I am not too happy with terms like ‘the left’, to be honest. And I don’t use it much….if by ‘the left’ you mean people who are committed to peace and justice and freedom and so on, there can’t be elements of the left opposed to workers’ movement, at least under that definition.

Hitler wanted to destroy Russia- everyone needs to remember how that ended