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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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 only real influence I've ever had is myself.

The liberal ideal is that everyone should have fair access and fair opportunity. This is not equality of result. It's equality of opportunity. There's a fundamental difference.

When people disappoint you, it's just as much your responsibility to be aware of it and what you don't want.

The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

A sad, wise valor is the brave complexion.

I'm half deaf. I have nerve damage and a constant ringing in both of my ears, and there are certain times and conditions when I can hardly hear at all.

The basic parts, the start-up molecules, can be supplied in abundance and don't have to be made by some elaborate process. That immediately makes things simpler.

What I say is, a town isn't a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it's got a bookstore it knows it's not fooling a soul.

I came from an extraordinarily dysfunctional family, full of abuse and alcoholism. And eventually everyone within the family had committed suicide.

I will be my undoing If I become my obsession.