I believe that the formation of the Chekas was one of the gravest and most impermissible errors that the Bolshevik leaders committed… — 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”… — Victor Serge Copy Share Image
“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… — Victor Serge Copy Share Image
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… — Victor Serge Copy Share Image
“It has been observed that I show hardly any interest in talking about myself. It is hard for me to disentangle my own person… — Victor Serge Copy Share Image
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… — Victor Serge Copy Share Image
I followed his argument with the blank uneasiness which one might feel in the presence of a logical lunatic. — Victor Serge Copy Share Image
