6 Leon Trotsky Quotes on Power

Leon Trotsky quotes on power

2. In our eyes, individual terror is inadmissible precisely because it belittles the role of the masses in their own consciousness, reconciles them to their own powerlessness, and turns their eyes and hopes toward a great avenger and liberator who someday will come and accomplish his mission.

5. Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.

21. In Stalin each [Soviet bureaucrat] easily finds himself. But Stalin also finds in each one a small part of his own spirit. Stalin is the personification of the bureaucracy. That is the substance of his political personality.

22. It was the supreme expression of the mediocrity of the apparatus that Stalin himself rose to his position.

24. In inner-party politics, these methods lead, as we shall yet see, to this: the party organization substitutes itself for the party, the central committee substitutes itself for the organization, and, finally, a 'dictator' substitutes himself for the central committee.

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