Leon Trotsky — "The working class must learn to fight, and it must learn to win."

"The purpose of the revolution is to free humanity from the chains of exploitation."

"The working class needs a state, but a state of a new type, a workers' state."

"The party replaces the working class, the central committee replaces the party, and finally the dictator replaces the central committee."

"Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into a rut every now and then. And then you must hoist yourself out of the rut by your own bootstraps."

"The old society does not perish until it has exhausted all its creative possibilities."