- Leon Trotsky: It's hard living with an old revolutionary. You should have been with us when we stormed the Winter Palace! With Lenin in Moscow in the early days! What happiness to be alive - to be fighting then!
- Gita Samuels: You're in a fine state! God, has someone cut your tongue off? Why do you get like this? Is it the altitude you're in - or is it something you've eaten?
- Leon Trotsky: I trust that I will earn my place in history. History has different measures. The slave owner used his cunning and violence to chain the slaves and the slaves used cunning and violence to break chains. Only contemptible eunuchs, would say they are equal before a court morality. Only contemptible eunuchs would say that they are equal. Before a court morality.
- Natalia Sedowa Trotsky: Of the 12 apostles, only Judas was a traitor, but if he had a quiet power, he already left, would have been the traitor.