Victor Serge on political commitment: To my mind, it is less a question of an exalted or shrewd intelligence, than of good sense, good will, and a certain sort of courage to enable one to rise above both the pressures of ones environment and the natural inclination to close ones eyes to facts, a temptation that arises from our immediate interests and from the fear which problems inspire in us. A French essayist has said, What is terrible when you seek the truth, is that you find it. You find it, and then you are no longer free to follow the biases of your personal circle, or to accept fashionable clichés.
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