Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful.

One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

During the first two months of the war it was the Anarchists more than anyone else who had saved the situation, and much later than this the Anarchist militia, in spite of their indiscipline, were notoriously the best fighters among the purely Spanish forces.

Revolutions only effect a radical improvement when the masses are alert and know how to chuck out their leaders as soon as the latter have done their job.

Perhaps it is only when people are somewhere near the starvation level that they have anything to sing about.

The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.