"Vain indeed is all overweening pride in the conquest even of the entire universe if one has not conquered one's own passions."

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To renounce the conquest of power is voluntarily to leave the power with those who wield it, the exploiters. The essence of every revolution consisted and consists in putting a new class in power, thus enabling it to realize its own program in life. It is impossible to wage war and to reject victory.

— Leon Trotsky