Politics Quotes

Power, governance, and the messy business of organizing human societies.

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"Understand, I had no hatred for America, but America had temporarily lost her way."
Eleanor Roosevelt
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"The most important thing for us is the Ukrainian question. The fate of the revolution itself depends on it."
Leon Trotsky
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"The revolution betrayed is the revolution that lost its internationalist character."
Leon Trotsky
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"Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel."
Leon Trotsky
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"The permanent revolution theory teaches that the democratic tasks of the backward nations can be completed only under the direction of the proletariat."
Leon Trotsky
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"The national bourgeoisie betrays the colonial peoples to imperialism."
Leon Trotsky
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"Without international revolution, there is no future for any backward country."
Leon Trotsky
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"The revolution must be permanent or it will perish."
Leon Trotsky
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"The reformist denies the necessity of revolutionary transformation."
Leon Trotsky
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"The working class must not be fooled by nationalist rhetoric."
Leon Trotsky
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"The peasantry cannot lead its own revolution; it requires proletarian guidance."
Leon Trotsky
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"The working class is the only truly revolutionary force in society."
Leon Trotsky
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"The state is not neutral; it is an instrument of class domination."
Leon Trotsky
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"We should support whatever the enemy opposes and oppose whatever the enemy supports."
Mao Zedong
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"The struggle of the proletariat against the bourgeoisie must necessarily be a political struggle."
Mao Zedong
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"In the countryside, we must focus on the peasants and the land."
Mao Zedong
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"The people's communes represent the road to communism."
Mao Zedong
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"We must eliminate class struggle through socialist transformation."
Mao Zedong
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"We will eventually bury imperialism through historical development."
Mao Zedong
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"We cannot tolerate the spread of revisionist ideas in our party."
Mao Zedong
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"We cannot expect anything from the League of Nations"
Joseph Stalin
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"The Pope! How many divisions has he got?"
Joseph Stalin
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"We have room for persons in our country"
Joseph Stalin
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"Communism is socialism with a gun"
Joseph Stalin
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"Politics is war by other means"
Joseph Stalin
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"The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State."
Benito Mussolini
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"The crowd doesn't like to think for itself."
Benito Mussolini
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"Every drop of my blood is Fascist."
Benito Mussolini
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"The individual is helpless in the face of the State."
Benito Mussolini
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"Politics is action."
Benito Mussolini