Leon Trotsky Revolutionary Quotations

If we had had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.

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.

Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.

The revolution has its own laws: in the period of its culmination it pushes the most highly developed, determined and far-seeing stratum of the revolutionary class to the most advanced positions.

That the existence of the Soviet Union has an international revolutionary significance is a commonplace equally recognized by friends and foes.

Once again, he who ignores the problems of revolutionary strategy would do better not to talk about revolutions at all.

I emphasized the significance of revolutionary strategy.

Revolutionary realism tries to draw the maximum advantage from every situation - that is what makes it revolutionary - but at the same time it does not permit us to set ourselves fantastic aims - that is what makes it realistic.