Leon Trotsky Quotes About Violence

Quotes about: Violence

• History has different yardsticks for the cruelty of the Northerners and the cruelty of the Southerners in the Civil War. A slave-owner who through cunning and violence shackles a slave in chains, and a slave who through cunning or violence breaks the chains – let not the contemptible eunuchs tell us that they are equals before a court of morality!

  Leon Trotsky

  War, Slave Owners, Different

  Leon Trotsky (1968). “Their morals and ours: and , The moralists and sycophants against Marxism”

• As long as I breathe I hope. As long as I breathe I shall fight for the future, that radiant future, in which man, strong and beautiful, will become master of the drifting stream of his history and will direct it towards the boundless horizons of beauty, joy and happiness!

  Leon Trotsky

  Beautiful, Strong, Fighting

  "The Prophet Armed : Trotsky, 1879-1921" by Isaac Deutscher, (p. 45), 2003.

• Natasha has just come up to the window from the courtyard and opened it wider so that the air may enter more freely into my room. I can see the bright green strip of grass beneath the wall, and the clear blue sky above the wall, and sunlight everywhere. Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression and violence, and enjoy it to the full.

  Leon Trotsky

  Beautiful, Wall, Air

  Leon Trotsky (1977). “Writings of Leon Trotsky: 1939-40”, Pathfinder Pr

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

  Leon Trotsky

  Beautiful, Evil, Violence

  Leon Trotsky, Isaac Deutscher (1964). “The age of permanent revolution: a Trotsky anthology”

• The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence.

  Leon Trotsky

  Wisdom, Party, Politics

• Under all conditions, well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.

  Leon Trotsky

  Distance, Two, Violence

  Leon Trotsky (1967). “Stalin: An Appraisal of the Man and His Influence”, New York : Stein and Day

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