I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.

A dirty joke is not, of course, a serious attack on morality, but it is a sort of mental rebellion, a momentary wish that things were otherwise.

No animal shall kill any other animal WITHOUT CAUSE.

We may be together for another six months—a year—there’s no knowing. At the end we’re certain to be apart. Do you realize how utterly alone we shall be?

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

...every human being is doomed to die, which is the greatest of all failures.

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.