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Leon Trotsky (Politician)

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.

— Leon Trotsky live

Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from ones enemies.

— Leon Trotsky learning

Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.

— Leon Trotsky mind

In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.

— Leon Trotsky time

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

— Leon Trotsky man

For forty-three years of my conscious life I have remained a revolutionist; for forty-two of them I have fought under the banner of Marxism. If I had to begin all over again I would of course try to avoid this or that mistake, but the main course of my life would remain unchanged. I shall die a proletarian revolutionist, a Marxist, a dialectical materialist, and, consequently, an irreconcilable atheist. My faith in the communist future of mankind is not less ardent, indeed it is firmer today, than it was in the days of my youth.

— Leon Trotsky life

The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

— Leon Trotsky life

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