The artist can not serve his struggle for freedom unless he subjectively assimilates the social content, unless he feels in his very nerves its meaning and drama and freely seeks to give his own inner world incarnation in his art. - Leon Trotsky
Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other. - Leon Trotsky
Socialism needs democracy like the human body needs oxygen. - Leon Trotsky
Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures. - Leon Trotsky
You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you. - Leon Trotsky
Fascism is a caricature of Jacobinism. - Leon Trotsky
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man. - Leon Trotsky
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. - Leon Trotsky
...capitalism does live by crises and booms, just as a human being lives by inhaling and exhaling. - Leon Trotsky