Leon Trotsky Quotes

Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future.

Monuments are for the living, not the dead.

George W. Bush and his administration have hijacked the American apparatus… If people acted on what they felt in their hearts, they would ring the White House with burning torches and pitchforks.

To fight against the government with any means is a basic right and sport of every German.

Any government is concerned whenever you have public demonstrations in large measure.

If a thousand [citizens] were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.

Revolutions, when they erupt, appear to the elites and the establishment to be sudden and unexpected. This is because the real work of revolutionary ferment and consciousness is unseen by the mainstream society, noticed only after it has largely been completed.

I know [Rudy Giuliani] call the protesters crybabies.

Monuments obtain their full worth through their complete use.

In the 1990s, there was [Bill] Clinton derangement syndrome. Then, we had [George W.] Bush and [Barack] Obama derangement syndromes, back in the first 16 years of this century.And now, we might be seeing [Donald]Trump derangement syndrome? By that, we mean this. The feeling that no matter what the president does, the left or right or whoever is out of power, is alarmed, outraged and distraught and they're going to let you know no matter what.

I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.

Our history in this country dates from the moment that restless men among us became restless under oppression and rose against it . . . Agitation, contentions, ceaseless unrest, constant aspiring -- a race so moved must prevail.

It was such a bigger picture [ Westworld] than what I thought it was. It's more of a revolution than a TV show.

Their monument sticks like a fishbone in the city's throat.

The sight of such a monument is like continual and stationary music, which one hears for one's good as one approaches it.

I'll say this about the war protesters: At least most of them are only putting duct tape across their mouths so I can still tell the rest of them to blow it out their ass.

I am invested in keeping present the forgotten bodies.

The wealth of society is created by the workers, peasants and working intellectuals. If they take their destiny into their own hands, follow a Marxist-Leninist line and take an active attitude in solving problems instead of evading them, there will be no difficulty in the world which they cannot overcome.

Art is a form of consciousness.

the sleeper must awaken.

In our own case, we don't consider the loss of a monastery or a monument the end of our entire way of life. If one monastery is destroyed, sometimes it happens.

Revolutions usually start with enthusiasm and end in tears.

Liberty is never unalienable, it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes.

Even a poor, out-of-datecollection reflects in its own way the values of the people who created it and the community it serves.

We are in a strange period of history in which a revolutionary has to be a patriot and a patriot has to be a revolutionary.