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Science Quotes by Leon Trotsky (8 quotes)
Art, it is said, is not a mirror, but a hammer: it does not reflect, it shapes.
— Leon Trotsky
In Literature and Revolution, (1924).
Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal. The bourgeoisie in the long run only changed the form of the pack.
— Leon Trotsky
In History of the Russian Revolution (1933), Vol. 3, Chap. 1.
If we had had more time for discussing we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.
— Leon Trotsky
In My Life (1930).
It is clear that the twentieth century is the most disturbed century within the memory of humanity. Any contemporary of ours who wants peace and comfort above all has chosen a bad time to be born.
— Leon Trotsky
In 'On the New Germany', Manchester Guardian (22 Mar 1933). Also seen paraphrased as, “Anyone desiring a quiet life has done badly to be born in the twentieth century.”
Not believing in force is the same thing as not believing in gravitation.
— Leon Trotsky
As quoted in G. Maximov, The Guillotine at Work (1940).
Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
— Leon Trotsky
Diary entry (8 May 1936), collected in Diary in Exile (1959).
Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a manoeuvre, a blow with an agreement.
— Leon Trotsky
In What Next? (1932).
You [the Mensheviks] are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on—into the dustbin of history!
— Leon Trotsky
In History of the Russian Revolution (1933), Vol. 3, Chap. 10.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
