Top 15 Leon Trotsky Quotes

The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.

Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.

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.

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

A means can be justified only by its end. But the end in its turn needs to be justified.

Tell me anyway — Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies.

In a country where the sole employer is the State, opposition means death by slow starvation. The old principle: who does not work shall not eat, has been replaced by a new one: who does not obey shall not eat.

As long as human labor power, and, consequently, life itself, remain articles of sale and purchase, of exploitation and robbery, the principle of the “sacredness of human life” remains a shameful lie, uttered with the object of keeping the oppressed slaves in their chains.

Natasha has just come up to the window from the courtyard and opened it wider so that the air may enter more freely into my room. I can see the bright green strip of grass beneath the wall, and the clear blue sky above the wall, and sunlight everywhere. Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression and violence, and enjoy it to the full.

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

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

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

‎The party that leans upon the workers but serves the bourgeoisie, in the period of the greatest sharpening of the class struggle, cannot but sense the smells wafted from the waiting grave.

The United States is not only the strongest, but also the most terrified country.

Our planet is being turned into a filthy and evil-smelling imperialist barrack.