Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.

All governments lie, but disaster lies in wait for countries whose officials smoke the same hashish they give out.

The arms race is based on an optimistic view of technology and a pessimistic view of man. It assumes there is no limit to the ingenuity of science and no limit to the deviltry of human beings.

Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

Victor Serge died in exile and obscurity, apparently no more than a splinter of a splinter in the Marxist movement. But with the passage of the years, he looms up as one of the great moral figures of our time, an artist of such integrity and a revolutionary of such purity as to overshadow those who achieved fame and power. His failure was his success. I know of no participant in Russia's revolution and Spain's agonies who more deserves the attention of our concerned youth.

If you want to know about governments, all you need to know is two words: Governments lie.