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"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."
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"Often it takes outer authority to send us on the path to our own inner authority."
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"It is interesting to ponder the fact that there is no real difference between what the Western Fascists wanted of literature and what the Bolsheviks want. Let me quote: "The personality of the artist should develop freely and without restraint. One thing, however, we demand: acknowledgement of our creed. Thus spoke one of the big Nazis, Dr. Rosenberg, Minister of Culture in Hitler's Germany. Another quote: "Every artist has the right to create freely; but we, Communists, must guide him according to plan. Thus spoke Lenin. Both of these are textual quotations, and their similitude would have been highly diverting had not the whole thing been so very sad."
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"God placed us on earth to be kings and priests."
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"The book-learned preacher who carries the badge of authority, is by no means religious."
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"Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that which is good, just, and honest."
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"I was not born to be free---I was born to adore and obey."
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"As artists, we are eternally heartbroken."
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"I will not nullify, I will not secede, but I will under sovereign State authority fight in the Union another revolutionary conflict for civil liberty, and a Union which will defend it."
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"I'll have you understand I am running this court, and the law hasn't got a damn thing to do with it!"
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"I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority."
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"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."
Constancy
"I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals."
Ideal
"The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed."
Love
"There is, therefore, no solution possible other than an economy directed by the workers through their organisations of control-through the workers' syndicates."
Control
"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."
Men
"The struggle is so great that the triumph over fascism alone is worth the sacrifice of our lives."
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"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."
Life
"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."
World
"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."
Sacrifice
"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."
America
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