Trotskyites Quotes

#1. Do you know that there's hardly anyone left of last year's Caucasian governments? I've tried to stop it, but in vain. Yet they can't all be Trotskyites and traitors.

Lavrentiy Beria

#2. I'm not going to throw away the hand of friendship to suit 100 Trotskyites in Glasgow.

Billy Connolly

#3. I couldn't help noticing how all the best Marxist analyses are always analyses of a failure ... Like, why did Paris Commune go wrong? Trotskyites. Why did the October Revolution go wrong? And so on ... OK, we screwed it up, but we can give the best theory why it had to happen.

Slavoj Zizek

#4. Socialists find me too far left; Trotskyites not far enough; ecologists say I am too happy eating foie gras, defending nuclear energy and GM plants; feminists find I am not enough of a woman; anarchists a petit-bourgeois who has sold out because I believe in universal suffrage.

Michel Onfray

#5. My contact with [Cato] was strange. They're ideologues, like Trotskyites. All questions must be seen and solved within the true faith of libertarianism, the idea of minimal government. And like Trotskyites, the guys from Cato can talk you to death.

Nat Hentoff

#6. A true masochist hangs before me, finding pleasure from pain. Begging for, and needing more. She fills the sadist in me.

B.S.M. Stoneking

#7. I have been quoted saying that, in the future, all companies will be Internet companies. I still believe that. More than ever, really.

Andy Grove

#8. When you don't hear others, you don't imagine them, they become unreal, and you are left in the wasteland of a world with only yourself in it, and that surely makes you starving, though you know not for what, if you have ceased to imagine others exist in any true deep way that matters.

Rebecca Solnit

#9. I like putting my money into things like food and shelter. I'm probably a bad example of an investor.

Simon Baker

#10. The most important question a seminary student must answer about his professor is not, 'Is he orthodox?,' but 'Is he honest?

William E. Nix

#11. Our economy now rewards artists far more than any other economy in history ever has.

Seth Godin

#12. Which I would've done 'cause I volunteered for the draft which meant that I only had to do two years. But when the Cubans had missiles in the Canal and Kennedy made the extension, I was one of the ones who had enough time to be extended.

Edwin Starr

#13. It's hard for me, a Jew, to stay in the moment. Without the past, where is the guilt? And without the future, where is the dread? And without guilt and dread, who am I?

Christopher Moore

#14. I am never very forward in offering spiritual consolation to any one in distress or disease. I believe that such resources, to be of any service, must be self-evolved in the first instance. I am something of the Quaker's mind in this, and am inclined to wait for the spirit.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#15. In my view, a united Ireland is inevitable, and it is certainly more likely than a voluntary coalition which doesn't include Sinn Fein.

Martin McGuinness