Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a maneuver, a blow with an agreement.

Leon Trotsky

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Topic

Carrots and sticks Political power Politics

Author

Leon Trotsky

Source

What Next?

Medium

Essay

Genre

Political literature

Language

Russian

Time

1932 1930s 20th century

Occupation

Marxist revolutionary Marxist Revolutionary Politician Writer

From

Ukraine Europe

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Citation

Trotsky, Leon. What Next? Vital Questions for the German Proletariat. Pioneer Publishers, 1932, ch. 14.

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There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

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Medium
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Genre
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Language
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Time
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Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Leo Tolstoy

Anna Karenina

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Family dysfunction Family Parents and children

Author

Leo Tolstoy
Source
Anna Karenina
Medium
Novel
Language
Russian
Time
1877 1870s 19th century
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Original Citation

Tolstoy, Leo. Анна Каренина [Anna Karenina]. The Russian Messenger, 1875-1877. Serial.

Current Citation

Tolstoy, Leo. Anna Karenina, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Penguin Classics, 2014.