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Their Morals and Ours: The Class Foundations of Moral Practice QUOTES

Their Morals and Ours: The Class Foundations of Moral Practice QUOTES

1 " The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end. "

― Leon Trotsky , Their Morals and Ours: The Class Foundations of Moral Practice

2 " A means can be justified only by its end. But the end in its turn needs to be justified. "

― Leon Trotsky , Their Morals and Ours: The Class Foundations of Moral Practice

3 " A slave-owner who through cunning and violence shackles a slave in chains, and a slave who through cunning or violence breaks the chains – let not the contemptible eunuchs tell us that they are equals before a court of morality! "

― Leon Trotsky , Their Morals and Ours: The Class Foundations of Moral Practice

4 " Lincoln's significance lies in his not hesitating before the most severe means, once they were found to be necessary, in achieving a great historic aim posed by the development of a young nation. "

― Leon Trotsky , Their Morals and Ours: The Class Foundations of Moral Practice