Federica Montseny famous quotes

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

#Liberty #Elements #Dignity

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.
-- Federica Montseny

#People #Feelings #Spain

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

#Russia #Suffering #Spain

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.
-- Federica Montseny

#Responsibility #Sacrifice #Order

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.
-- Federica Montseny

#Responsibility #Spain #Would Be

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

#Moral #Problem #Economic

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

#Needs #Hell #Purgatory

The people themselves, and only the people, determine the rhythm of our fight.
-- Federica Montseny

#Fighting #People #Rhythm

Men are as we have always known them, neither better nor worse from the hearts of rogues there springs a latent honesty, from the depths of honest men there emerges a brutish appetite - a thirst for extermination, a desire for blood.
-- Federica Montseny

#Honesty #Spring #Heart

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.
-- Federica Montseny

#Years #Democracy #Spain

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

#Struggle #Sacrifice #Triumph

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.
-- Federica Montseny

#Responsibility #Rights #Order

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.
-- Federica Montseny

#Authority #Remains

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

#Wish #Anarchist #Never Change