Federica Montseny Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.”

“If all our comrades of Europe, America and other countries, who do not understand what we are doing to Spanish Anarchism, would come to Spain, we could then see how they would react.”

“Men are as we have always known them, neither better nor worse from the hearts of rogues there springs a latent honesty, from the depths of honest men there emerges a brutish appetite - a thirst for extermination, a desire for blood.”

“Prostitution presents a moral, economic and social problem that cannot be resolved juridically.”

“We need no messiah and no sterile conception of a god menacing us with hell and purgatory.”

“But we must create in each person a sense of responsibility in order that each one of us can have the right to enjoy all his rights.”

“Never will the Anarchists in Spain be made to suffer as they have been and are in Russia.”

“The struggle is so great that the triumph over fascism alone is worth the sacrifice of our lives.”

“Authority is something from which we are constantly subtracting, of which there remains always a residue, and which we attempt to make smaller and smaller.”

“In order to fully realise our aspirations, we must create in the masses of the people the sense of sacrifice and responsibility that has been the characteristic of the anarchist movement throughout its historic development in Spain.”