Federica Montseny Quotes

#1. I called a bunch of the restaurants in my neighborhood that I had assumed served all-organic food, and so many didn't!

Kourtney Kardashian

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. In this pause, I suddenly saw something very clearly.
Whatever it was I wanted from my mother was simply not there to be had. It was not her fault.
And it was therefore not my fault that I was unable to elicit it.

Alison Bechdel

#6. Progress is mostly the product of rogues.

Tom Peters

#7. 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

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

Federica Montseny

#9. If God had meant us to have group sex, he'd have given us more organs.

Malcolm Bradbury

#10. 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

#11. The people themselves, and only the people, determine the rhythm of our fight.

Federica Montseny

#12. My liberation as a man is tied to your liberation as a woman.

Tony Porter

#13. I'm a huge Marvin Gaye fan.

Charlie Puth

#14. There is, therefore, no solution possible other than an economy directed by the workers through their organisations of control-through the workers' syndicates.

Federica Montseny

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

Federica Montseny

#16. 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

#17. I still do not understand why we don't have people on the streets every single day raising their voices for climate.

Christiana Figueres

#18. I had, out of my sixty teachers, a scant half dozen who couldn't have been supplanted by phonographs.

Don Herold

#19. He was by no means opposed to hard labour on principle, for he would work away at a cricket-match by the day together, - running, and catching, and batting, and bowling, and revelling in toil which would exhaust a galley-slave.

Charles Dickens

#20. Funniest thing happened though, you wouldn't believe it, ha, the mannequins came to life. I went insane.

Drew Carey

#21. 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.

Federica Montseny

#22. A joy that's shared is a joy made double.

John Ray

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

Federica Montseny

#24. 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

#25. And we will accept the creation of the Iberian Federation of a socialist republic which will give each region the right to construct its life in accordance with its economic possibilities and political preponderance.

Federica Montseny

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

Federica Montseny

#27. Just because fate finds us our perfect match doesn't mean it's always easy and we don't have to work at it. Anything worth having takes fighting for sometimes.- Victor Marius

Joyee Flynn

#28. 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.

Federica Montseny

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

Federica Montseny

#30. 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.

Federica Montseny

#31. 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