Leon Trotsky Revolutionary Quotations

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.

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.

I emphasized the significance of revolutionary strategy.

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

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

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.