16 Quotes by Victor Serge

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

With his worn-out lungs, his obstinate self-effacement, his bookish timidity, Broux is nonetheless a strong man; by means of his awareness of how impossible it is to live, he raises himself precisely to a higher possibility of living, to an endurance which is more sure of itself because it believes it has nothing more to lose. From his weakness he was able to create a strength; from his despair, an acquiescence; from his acquiescence, a hope...

To steal from a rich man has always been a greater crime than to kill a poor man.

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 that fashion, he did not know that it is possible to think better, more accurately, more clearly.

Suicide is often an act of vitality, and even – if it is not the result of neurosis – the act of a person who is powerfully attached to life.

It is a serious matter to destroy a man’s faith without replacing it.

Perhaps it is a very good thing that we cannot wholly rule our minds and that they force on us ideas and images which we would ignobly prefer to dismiss; thus truth makes its way in spite of egotism and unconsciousness.