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…

- Leon Trotsky

Everyone has a right to be stupid, but Comrade MacDonald abuses the privilege.

- Leon Trotsky

From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.

- Leon Trotsky

The people will have the right to elect their representatives from a list of candidates [who have been approved by the Party].

- Leon Trotsky

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

- Leon Trotsky

Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government.

- Leon Trotsky

Under all conditions, well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.

- Leon Trotsky

All the parties of capitalist society, all its moralists and all its sycophants will perish beneath the debris of the impending catastrophe. The only…

- Leon Trotsky

Communism needs democracy like the human body needs oxygen.

- Leon Trotsky