"From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality." — Leon Trotsky

The dynamic of revolutionary events is directly determined by swift, intense, and passionate changes in the psychology of classes which have already formed themselves before the revolution.

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.

If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.

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