Leon Trotsky — "The working class needs a party, a vanguard, to lead it to victory."

"Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes …"

"The revolution demands all of a man; it does not tolerate half-measures."

"Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, a…"

"The bureaucracy in the Soviet Union is not a class, but a parasitic growth on the workers' state."

"The struggle for power is a struggle for the minds of men."