Federica Montseny Quotes

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.

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.

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

In Spain, we should have enough intelligence, enough sense of individual and collective responsibility to do for ourselves that which would be imposed upon us by a dictatorship.

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

We have confirmed something we only knew in theory, namely that revolution, in which uncontrolled and uncontrollable forces operate imperiously, is blind and destructive, grandiose and cruel.

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

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.

There are Anarchists in other parts of the world who are unable to, comprehend the position of the Spanish Anarchists. I do not pretend to censor these Anarchists.

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

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.