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"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."
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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."


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


"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."


"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."


"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."


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


"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."


"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."
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