Tuesday, September 23, 2014 at 11:00AM
Drew Wolfe

Leon Trotsky

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

Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.

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.

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

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

As long as human labor power, and, consequently, life itself, remain articles of sale and purchase, of exploitation and robbery, the principle of the “sacredness of human life” remains a shameful lie, uttered with the object of keeping the oppressed slaves in their chains.

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

Our planet is being turned into a filthy and evil-smelling imperialist barrack.

Old age is the most unexpected of all things that can happen to a man.

‎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.


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