16 Quotes by Victor Serge

Carelessness on the part of revolutionaries has always been the best aid the police have.

He who does not cry out the truth when he knows the truth becomes the accomplice of the liars and falsifiers.

We have conquered everything, and everything has slipped out of our grasp.

Tamo, u prizemlju, Balkanci: soba puna Grka, protivnika Venizelosa; Makedonaca što samo žele da budu svoji i da ih ne svrstavaju u Grke, Srbe ili Bugare; izbeglice i komite, godinama su izdržavali u planinama uprkos svim okolnostima.

Why survive if it is not for those who do not?

For lack of anything better... it is the failure of others that makes for the strength of the fühers. When there's no worthwhile banner, you start to march behind worthless ones.

You never depend only on yourself, you never live only for yourself, and you have to realize that our most intimate thought, that we most own, is bound by a thousand bonds to that of the world. And he who speaks, he who writes is essentially someone speaking for all those who are voiceless.

Writing should be testimony to the vast flow of life through us.

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