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"I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals."
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"Fool! The Ideal is in thyself, the impediment too is in thyself: thy Condition is but the stuff thou art to shape that same Ideal out of: what matters whether such stuff be of this sort or that, so the Form thou give it be heroic, be poetic? O thou that pinest in the imprisonment of the Actual, and criest bitterly to the gods for a kingdom wherein to rule and create, know this of a truth: the thing thou seekest is already with thee, 'here or nowhere,' couldst thou only see!"
"When you get a principle on which everyone is agreed, you get the beginning of complacency and deterioration."
"The concepts of Joss are pure, and express attitudes and technical ideals."
"It is only in marriage with the world that our ideals can bear fruit divorced from it they remain barren."
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"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."
"The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed."
"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."
"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."
"There is, therefore, no solution possible other than an economy directed by the workers through their organisations of control-through the workers' syndicates."
"The struggle is so great that the triumph over fascism alone is worth the sacrifice of our lives."
"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."
"Prostitution presents a moral, economic and social problem that cannot be resolved juridically."
"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."
"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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