Bolshevism Quote by Victor Serge

“He aquí la muerte, fin de un universo.”

— Victor Serge

“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

“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

...and it is a serious matter to destroy a man's faith without replacing it.

— Victor Serge

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

He who speaks, he who writes is above all one who speaks on behalf of all those who have no voice.

— Victor Serge

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

“[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

“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

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

I followed his argument with the blank uneasiness which one might feel in the presence of a logical lunatic.

— Victor Serge

I believe that the formation of the Chekas was one of the gravest and most impermissible errors that the Bolshevik leaders committed in 1918…

— Victor Serge