Federica Montseny Quotations

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

In order to fully realise our aspirations, we must create in the masses of the people the sense of sacrifice and responsibility that has been the characteristic of the anarchist movement throughout its historic development in Spain.

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