Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Isaac Deutscher

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Polish writer Isaac Deutscher.
Last updated on April 15, 2025.
Isaac Deutscher

Isaac Deutscher was a Polish Marxist writer, journalist and political activist who moved to the United Kingdom before the outbreak of World War II. He is best known as a biographer of Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin and as a commentator on Soviet affairs. His three-volume biography of Trotsky was highly influential among the British New Left in the 1960s and 1970s.

I do not think that a man's rise to power is necessarily the climax of his life or that his loss of office should be equated with his fall. — © Isaac Deutscher
I do not think that a man's rise to power is necessarily the climax of his life or that his loss of office should be equated with his fall.
A man once jumped from the top floor of a burning house in which many members of his family had already perished. He managed to save his life; but as he was falling he hit a person standing down below and broke that person's legs and arms. The jumping man had no choice; yet to the man with the broken limbs he was the cause of his misfortune. If both behaved rationally, they would not become enemies.
Trees have roots, Jews have legs.
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