Leon Trotsky Quotes

The right to be irresponsible and stupid is something I hold very dear. And luckily it is something I do well.

Those who have the power and should be the most responsible are often the least responsible.

If I'd had fame early on, I'd have been able to abuse it in the way that a young man should.

We won't tolerate abuses and crimes made every day in the name of freedom of speech. That is freedom of extortion and blackmail.

We've seen the hubris. And now we're seeing the scandals.

Folly always knows the answer.

There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.

Too much liberty corrupts us all.

Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.

Those who have more power are liable to sin more; no theorem in geometry is more certain than this.

America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society.

We encounter the dilemma of freedom versus authority in all sorts of places but probably nowhere more frequently than in the area of Big Brother's ongoing efforts to protect us from ourselves – efforts that many people view as an invasion of their privacy or as infringement upon their God-given right to be stupid (though they don't usually put it that way).

We have the right to be idiots.

Stupidity and human incompetence are the great evils, not ambition and glory.

I think every model has times when they get obnoxious and crazy. You all of a sudden realize you are young and beautiful and you have money, and you just kind of go nutty for awhile.

I don't think I'm supposed to boss other people around just because I'm a so-called celebrity or star. I hate that when people act that way. No one deserves it. I've seen it happen. I don't call those people out - they know who they are. Some enjoy that reputation.

Anonymity, in some cases a key civil liberty, also enables society's worst actors.

I don't think anybody in the entertainment industry or in politics is surprised by the fact that those worlds are rife with promiscuity and irresponsibility - certainly a lack of accountability.

One of the bad things about bad behavior by politicians (particularly by Donald Trump, because he's president, but by others as well) is that it not only can encourage bad behavior by politicians of all ideological stripes but also can be cited to justify it.

I think when you take people who are damaged and you give them money and freedom, it can be a toxic cocktail.

He can afford to be a fool.

Never underestimate the potential for human stupidity when wealth and power are at stake.

Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.

Anonymity is no excuse for stupidity.

Immoderate assurance is perfect licentiousness.