Federica Montseny Quotes

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

I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Our constancy, same might call it our madness, was necessary to wear down the oppressive forces of the old democracy which, in Spain, was a hundred years behind the times.

The people themselves, and only the people, determine the rhythm of our fight.

We tried many times before to speed on the social revolution in Spain; attempted to stir up the feelings of the people and to raise the banner of Libertarian Communism.