Trotsky was essentially a Western mind. Lenin was a Russian, and unlike most other revolutionary exiles, wherever he went he was a Russian.

No, those ears were not created by any chance coming together of atoms in nature (the Communist view). They could have been created only by immense design.

Life is not worth living for which a man is not prepared to die at any moment.

On that road of the informer, it is always night. I cannot ever inform against anyone without feeling something die within me. I inform without pleasure, because it is necessary.

[It is b]etter to die on the losing side than to live under communisim.

Crime, violence, infamy are not tragedy. Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself from crime, violence, infamy, even at the cost of life. The struggle is the tragedy - not defeat or death. That is why the spectacle of tragedy has always filled men, not with despair, but with a sense of hope and exaltation.

Political freedom, as the Western world has known it, is only a political reading of the Bible.