Creative Quotations from . . .
Leon Trotsky
(1879-1940) born on Nov 07
Russian communist revolutionary. "He was a communist theorist and agitator and a leader in Russia's October Revolution, 1917."
 
   
F
Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.

R
Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravity.
A
"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."
N
If we had had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.
K
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: ""Literature and Revolution," ch. 6, 1924."
R: ""What Next?.""
A: "Entry for 5 Apr 1935, "Diary in Exile," 1959."
N: "Of the discussions in the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party about the proposed development of the Red Army; "My Life," ch. 36, 1930."
K: ""Diary in Exile.""



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