I believe indeed that to rescue the humanist tradition of the last decades is of the utmost importance, and that Victor Serge is one of the outstanding personalities representing the socialist aspect of humanism.

All men are in need of help and depend on one another. Human solidarity is the necessary condition for the unfolding of any one individual.

An illusion shared by everyone becomes a reality.

Integrity simply means not violating one's own identity.

We have, in the same way, relegated our own responsibility in what happens to our country to the specialists, who are supposed to take care of it, and the individual citizen does not feel that he can judge, and even that he should judge, and take any responsibility. I think there are quite a number of recent developments which show that.

Is love an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort.

Optimism is an alienated form of faith, pessimism an alienated form of despair.