Leon Trotsky — "The future belongs to communism."

"Socialism needs democracy like the human body needs a nervous system."

"Art, like science, does not seek to impose its will on life, but rather to reflect it, to understand it, and to reveal its inner laws."

"The working class, having seized power, must immediately proceed to socialist transformations."

"The permanent revolution, in the Marxian sense, means the uninterrupted development of the revolution, the uninterrupted transformation of the old society."

"The permanent revolution, in the Marxian sense, means that the complete, decisive, and radical solution of the tasks of the democratic revolution is conceivable only through the dictatorship of the pr…"