Leon Trotsky Quotes

You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.

war

Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.

old age

Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.

ideas

Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.

Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.

learning

Life is not an easy matter . . . You cannot live through it without falling into prostration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.

ideas