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"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."
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"Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course."

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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."


"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."


"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."


"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."


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


"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."


"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."


"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."
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