the ends never justify the means because IT never ends.
After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile, these people remain intact in spirit. They are armed with a transcendent faith; they have never won, and yet they have never accepted defeat.
the private conscience is the last and only protection of the civilized world.
I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.
... people miss a great deal by being sensible.
Thousand got away to other countries; thousands returned to Spain tempted by false promises of kindness. By the tens of thousands, these Spaniards died of neglect in the concentration camps.