3 Leon Trotsky Quotes on Ethics

Leon Trotsky quotes on ethics

6. A means can be justified only by its end. But the end in its turn needs to be justified. (Also quoted as 'The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.')

9. As for us, we were never concerned with the Kantian-priestly and vegetarian-Quaker prattle about the 'sacredness of human life.'

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