Leon Trotsky

The machine does not make the worker, but the worker makes the machine.

The party in power has the right to decide what is right and wrong.

The working class needs a party, a vanguard, to lead it to victory.

Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into a state of despair and cynicism unless you have an ideal to cling to.

The historic mission of the proletariat is to create a classless society.

The revolution is a merciless struggle.

Where there is no doubt, there is no progress.

The working class is the only class that can truly lead the revolution.

The individual is not merely a means to an end, but an end in himself.

The greatest art is to make people believe that they are free.

The party replaces the working class, the central committee replaces the party, and finally the dictator replaces the central committee.

The revolution demands an iron will.

The historical ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind nature, of the conscious over the unconscious, of the rational over the instinctive, of the planned over the elemental.

The national program of the proletariat in the underdeveloped countries can be successful only as a stage in the international revolution.

The old world will collapse, and the new world will be built on its ruins.

The working class, having seized power, must immediately proceed to socialist transformations.

The end justifies the means.

The purpose of the revolution is to free humanity from the chains of exploitation.

The party is always right.

The dictatorship of the proletariat is a bridge to socialism.