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The masses go into a revolution not with a prepared plan of social reconstruction, but with a sharp feeling that they cannot endure the old regime. Only the guiding layers of a class have a political program, and even this still requires the test of events and the approval of the masses.
— Leon Trotsky
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England is nothing but the last ward of the European madhouse, and quite possibly it will prove to be the ward for particularly violent cases.
— Leon Trotsky
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Revolutions are always verbose.
— Leon Trotsky
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The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.
— Leon Trotsky
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From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.
— Leon Trotsky
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Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.
— Leon Trotsky
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