"To renounce the conquest of power is voluntarily to leave the power with those who wield it, the exploiters. The essence of every revolution consisted and consists in putting a new class in power, thus enabling it to realize its own program in life. It is impossible to wage war and to reject victory."

-- Leon Trotsky

#War Quotes #Essence Quotes #Class Quotes

“When you have a character to work with, you carry them around in a strange way - they make you look at the world in a different way.”
“Apothegms are the wisdom of the past condensed for the instruction and guidance of the present.”
“Honestly, I feel like I spent the last 10 years just trying to work, just get my hands on the best material I could. I'd like to say that it was quite calculated and genius, my ability to take one step forward and two steps back.”
“That's already been tried before only means the first attempt got it wrong.”

Source : Twitter post from Apr 25, 2013
“Titles of honor are like the impressions on coins, which add no value to gold or silver, but only render brass current.”
“I never let anyone pluck, including myself, unless my mom approves. She guards my eyebrows. She's like the eyebrow police!”
“I was wrong. Those days are over and they ought to be over.”

Source : Speech in 1979. "Government in America: People, Politics, and Policy" by George C. Edwards, Pearson Education, p. 80, 2009.
“I genuinely believed no one would want to marry me. I am difficult to live with. I'm selfish, quite weird and I need time on my own to think - and then I work all night long. That is difficult for someone to deal with. And it would drive me mad - I could never be my own girlfriend!”

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