Leon Trotsky Quotes about Lying

Tell me anyway--Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies.

Tell me anyway--Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies.

Lying, Compare, I Can

As long as human labor power, and, consequently, life itself, remain articles of sale and purchase, of exploitation and robbery, the principle of the “sacredness of human life” remains a shameful lie, uttered with the object of keeping the oppressed slaves in their chains.

Leon Trotsky

Lying, Long, Principles

Leon Trotsky, Slavoj Žižek, Henry Noel Brailsford (2007). “Terrorism and communism: a reply to Karl Kautsky”, Verso Books

The motive force of history is truth and not lies.

Leon Trotsky

Lying, Force, Motive

The fundamental flaw of vulgar thought lies in the fact that it wishes to content itself with motionless imprints of a reality which consists of eternal motion.

Leon Trotsky

Lying, Reality, Wish

Leon Trotsky, Joseph Hansen, George Edward Novack, James Burnham (1965). “In Defense of Marxism: Against the Petty-bourgeois Opposition”