Leon Trotsky Quotes

It is not necessary to wait until all conditions for making revolution exist; the insurrection can create them.

We are revolutionaries.

You know, I'm not a revolutionary.

I was born in revolution.

For me, 'revolution' simply means radical change.

A rebellion is not a revolution. It may ultimately lead to that end.

Ready for the revolution!

The revolution will stop at nothing. We have changed the nature of politics.

In any social revolution the one thing that keeps it alive is hope.

Revolution, not elections!

The only books on revolution were published by communists.

Comrades, the revolution is on.

It was a mandate. I was there to help overthrow the goddamn government.

Even on songs we've got that are about a girl, there's always something there that's a call to insurrection.

I do see myself as aiming to foment some kind of revolution.

God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion... We have had thirteen States independent for eleven years. There has been one rebellion. That comes to one rebellion in a century and a half, for each State. What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion.

Revolution means turning the wheel.

With rebellion, awareness is born

I had many dolls. And you know how I played with them? By performing insurrections, assemblies, scenes of arrest. My dolls were almost never babies to be nursed but men and women who attacked barracks and ended up in prison.

While you live, the revolution lives

Let the revolution begin.

Once again, he who ignores the problems of revolutionary strategy would do better not to talk about revolutions at all.

Three words remain that can yet stir the blood of man: the word 'rebellion'; the word 'revolt'; the word 'revolution'.

The most heroic word in all languages is revolution.

The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.