“The necessity of starting life afresh on new foundations. That these foundations must be of social justice, of rational organization, of respect for the individual, of liberty, is for me an obvious fact which, little by little, is asserting itself… — Victor Serge Copy Share Image
“What will become of us in twenty years’ time?” we asked ourselves one evening. Thirty years have passed now. Raymond was guillotined: “Anarchist gangster” (so the newspapers). I came across Jean again in Brussels, a worker and a trade-union organizer, still a fighter for liberty after ten years in jail. Luce has died of tuberculosis, naturally. For my part, I… — Victor Serge Copy Share
“He who does not cry out the truth when he knows the truth becomes the accomplice of the liars and falsifiers.” — Victor Serge Copy Share Image
“But he did not think…thoughts formed in him and dissolved without control, almost like a reverie. And since he had got through life in… — Victor Serge Copy Share Image
...and it is a serious matter to destroy a man's faith without replacing it. — Victor Serge Copy Share Image
Early on, I learnt from the Russian intelligentsia that the only meaning of life lies in conscious participation in the making of history. The more I think of that, the more deeply true it seems to be. It follows that one must range oneself actively against everything that diminishes man, and involve oneself in all struggles which tend to liberate… — Victor Serge Copy Share
He who speaks, he who writes is above all one who speaks on behalf of all those who have no voice. — Victor Serge Copy Share Image
What is terrible when you seek the truth, is that you find it. You find it, and then you are no longer free to… — Victor Serge Copy Share Image
“[Seeing clearly] is not so difficult to achieve, and yet it is rather unusual. To my mind, it is less a question of an exalted or shrewd intelligence than of good sense, goodwill and a certain sort of courage to enable one to rise above both the pressures of one's environment and the natural inclination to close one's eyes to… — Victor Serge Copy Share
“It has been observed that I show hardly any interest in talking about myself. It is hard for me to disentangle my own person from the social processes, the ideas and activities in which it has shared, which matter more than it does and which give it value. I do not think of myself as at all an individualist: rather… — Victor Serge Copy Share
What with the political monopoly, the Cheka and the Red Army, all that now existed of the 'Commune-State' of our dreams was a theoretical myth. The war, the internal measures against counterrevolution, and the famine (which had created a bureaucratic rationing apparatus) had killed off Soviet democracy. How could it revive, and when? The Party lived in the certain knowledge… — Victor Serge Copy Share
I followed his argument with the blank uneasiness which one might feel in the presence of a logical lunatic. — Victor Serge Copy Share Image
