Leon Trotsky

Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.

You may not be interested in strategy, but strategy is interested in you.

Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.

A myth is a lie that conceals or reveals a truth. But if it reveals even a strand of history or truth, that's what gets my adrenaline going.

I think that, in almost all human beings, there is buried a profound tribal instinct that makes us very susceptible to being aroused to patriotic fervour.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.