Quotes by Leon Trotsky

• The upheavals and changes that, on the old scale, would have taken centuries are now accomplished in decades, even years. History has become hurried,- far more hurried than our thought.

• The most indisputable feature of revolution is the direct intervention of the masses in historical events.

• The era of great historical twists and turns does not tolerate znakharstvo. Experience, even spiritualized intuition, is not enough. It needs a synthetic doctrine that encompasses the interaction of the most important historical forces.

• He who bows to what has happened is incapable of preparing for the future.

• Even people forced to change the substance of their views most often squeeze it into old forms.

• Life is beautiful. May future generations cleanse it of evil, oppression, and violence, and enjoy it to the full!

• Truth erupts not only from a clash of opinions, as the French say, but also from the inner contradictions of lies.

• Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a person.

• The masses enter the revolution not with a ready-made plan for social reorganization, but with an acute sense that it is impossible to tolerate the old.

• Every feature of character, having reached a certain strength of tension, turns under certain conditions into an advantage.