Trotsky Quotes

• Here's to the day when the complete works of Leon Trotsky are published and widely distributed in the Soviet Union. On that day the USSR will have achieved democracy!

  C. Wright Mills

  Democracy, Unions, Leon

  "C. Wright Mills: The Last Six Months". Saul Landau, Ramparts Magazine (pp. 49-50), August 1965.

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• The Soviet Union was pretty much what Lenin and Trotsky said it was.

  Noam Chomsky

  Unions, Said, Soviet Union

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• Communism is as Jewish as the Mafia is Italian. It's a fact that almost all of the convicted spies for communism have been atheist Jews like the Rosenbergs. And international communism was invented by the Jew Karl Marx and has since been led mostly by Jews - like Trotsky.

  George Lincoln Rockwell

  Atheist, Italian, Mafia

  Interview with Alex Haley, Playboy, April 1966.

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• Trotsky rises to give me his hand, then sits at his desk, gently allowing his regard to light on my person.

  Georges Simenon

  Light, Hands, Giving

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• I would trade all the advantages of humanity to be a fly on the wall when Franklin and Jefferson discussed liberty, Lenin and Trotsky revolution, Newton and Halley the shape of the universe, or when Darwin entertained Huxley and Lyell at Down.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Wall, Humanity, Liberty

  Stephen Jay Gould (1987). “Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time”, p.64, Harvard University Press

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• If you walk into a coffee shop in 1903 Vienna, you might find at the same table the artist Gustav Klimt, Sigmund Freud, Leon Trotsky and possibly Adolf Hitler, who lived in Vienna at the same time.

  Eric Weiner

  Coffee, Artist, Vienna

  "How your neighborhood coffee shop is brewing geniuses". Interview with Paul Solman, www.pbs.org. January 21, 2016.

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• There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing. Everybody now-a-days is a father, there is father Mussolini and father Hitler and father Roosevelt and father Stalin and father Trotsky and father Blum and father Franco is just commencing now and there are ever so many more ready to be one. Fathers are depressing. England is the only country now that has not got one and so they are more cheerful there than anywhere. It is a long time now that they have not had any fathering and so their cheerfulness is increasing.

  Gertrude Stein

  Country, Depressing, Father

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• My favourite author is Leon Trotsky - the political philosophy and the way he writes is beautiful, and really relevant, too.

  Andrej Pejic

  Beautiful, Philosophy, Writing

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• I was always much impressed, in reading prison memoirs of revolutionists, such as Lenin and Trotsky ... by the amount of reading they did, the languages they studied, the range of their plans for a better social order. (Or rather, for a new social order.) In the Acts of the Apostles there are constant references to the Way and the New Man.

  Dorothy Day

  Reading, Men, Order

  "On Pilgrimage". "Catholic Worker", December 1968.

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• Trotsky was essentially a Western mind. Lenin was a Russian, and unlike most other revolutionary exiles, wherever he went he was a Russian.

  Whittaker Chambers

  Mind, Revolutionary, Exile

  Whittaker Chambers (1964). “Cold Friday”, New York

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• [Joseph] Stalin closes the exposition of these [Leon Trotsky] ideas with the words, "Such are in general the characteristic features of [Vladimir] Lenin's conception of the proletarian revolution."

  Leon Trotsky

  Ideas, Revolution, Characteristics

  Source: www.marxists.org

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• Like Rick in Casablanca: "We'll always have Paris." When what we'll always have is, like, Brooklyn and arguments about [Lev] Trotsky.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Paris, Brooklyn, Argument

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Trotsky found out about him - Leon Trotsky - because A.J.[Muste] worked. He was an activist. And he organized the first sit-in strike in Toledo in a factory. And Trotsky was very impressed with that.

  Nat Hentoff

  Toledo, Firsts, Factories

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• There were nowhere more docile disciples of Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin than the Nazis were.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Nazi, Docile, Disciple

  Ludwig Von Mises (1947). “Planned Chaos”, p.67, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• I met Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, Engels and Mao when I entered prison and they redeemed me.

  George Jackson

  Prison, Mao, Engels

  George Jackson (1970). “Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson”, Chicago Review Press

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• I bet you, if I had met Trotsky, and had had a chat with him, I would have found him a very interesting and human fellow, for I have never yet met a man I didn't like.

  Will Rogers

  Men, America, Interesting

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.191, Rowman & Littlefield

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• According to Colonel Ely Garrison, in his autobiography and according to the United States Naval Secret Service Report on Paul Warburg, the Russian Revolution had been
  financed by the Rothschilds and Warburgs, with a member of the Warburg family carrying the actual funds used by Lenin and Trotsky in Stockholm in 1918.

  Eustace Mullins

  Secret, United States, Revolution

  Eustace Clarence Mullins (2013). “The Study of The Federal Reserve and Its Secrets”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

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• It’s Tolstoy, by the way,” I say as I open the door. He turns around. “What?” Shut up, I tell myself. Shut up. “The writer of Anna Karenina. Not Trotsky. Trotsky was a revolutionary who was stabbed with a pickax in Mexico in 1940. But I can understand how the T thing could confuse you.

  Melina Marchetta

  Doors, Mexico, Way

  Melina Marchetta (2003). “Saving Francesca”

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• Say what you will, there is something fine about our old aristocracy. I'll bet Trotsky couldn't hit a moving secretary with an egg on a dark night.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Moving, Dark, Night

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