Quotes from Leon Trotsky

The creative union of the conscious with the unconscious is what one usually calls 'inspiration.'

Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.

Everyone has the right to be stupid on occasion, but Comrade Macdonald abuses the privilege.

You may not be interested in strategy, but strategy is interested in you.

Where the sole employer is the state, [opposition] means death by slow starvation.

Abusive language and swearing are a legacy of slavery, humiliation, and disrespect for human dignity, one's own and that of other people.

Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.

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