"I -- anarchist and individualist -- don't want to and cannot embrace the cause of atheist communism, because I don't believe in the supreme elevation of the masses and therefore I refuse the realization of Anarchy understood as a social form of human life together."
"We need to return to heroic anarchism, to individual, violent, reckless, poetic, decentering audacity..."
"The anarchist is the one who refuses every cause for the joy of his life radiating from inner spiritual intensity."
"The life that society offers us is not a full, free and joyful life. It is a crushed, mutilated, humiliated life. We must refuse it."
"The revolt of the individual against society is not given by that of the masses against governments."
"The demand for equality is nothing other than the demand: equal rights for all!"
"I am an individualist because I am an anarchist; and I am an anarchist because I am a nihilist."
"The anarchist teaching prescribes no method of struggle and rejects none which is in harmony with self-determination and free will."
"I despise humanity because it is not my humanity. I hate tyrants and I detest slaves."
"The complete transformation of everyone's living conditions can never be achieved on the path of slow development, through which at most improvements within a social system are possible."
"Anarchists emphatically reject a morality which denies the original concepts of right and wrong."
"No future and no humanity, no communism and no anarchy is worthy of the sacrifice of my life."
"Plebeian and bourgeois are equivalent. They deserve each other."
"The freedom of everyone, and thereby the freedom of each individual, requires community in socialism."
"All past revolutions were in the end, bourgeois and conservative."
"Like an operating system, the State defines us in relation to itself and each other. It defines us, for example, as citizens or residents, households and taxpayers. And these definitions make clear whether the state approves of our behavior."
"Whoever says "proletarian State" says "State Capitalism" whoever says "dictatorship of the Proletariat" says "Dictatorship of the Communist Party;" whoever says "strong government" says "Tsarist oligarchy of politicians.""
"Whosoever looks back on the history of socialism after the exclusion of the anarchists can see for themselves the gradual degeneration of Marxism as a political philosophy through the interpretations and practices of the social democrats."
"To us it means nothing that there is a Soviet Union somewhere in the world, for the sake of whose peace and tranquility the workers of Germany and China were sacrificed to Fascist barbarians by Stalin."
"Whereas we anarchists desire the extinction of the state through the social revolution and the constitution of an autonomist federal order, the Leninists desire the destruction of the bourgeois state and moreover the conquest of the state by the "proletariat.""
"We are not in the least afraid of ruins. We are going to inherit the earth; there is not the slightest doubt about that. The bourgeoisie might blast and ruin its own world before it leaves the stage of history. We carry a new world here, in our hearts. That world is growing this minute."
"You anarchist ministers, you make eloquent speeches and you write brilliant articles, but it is not with speeches and articles that one wins the war and defends the revolution."
"Leninism constitutes, without any doubt, a return to the revolutionary spirit of Marxism, but it also constitutes a return to the fallacies and abstractions of Marxist metaphysics."
"I do not expect any help for a libertarian revolution from any government in the world... we expect no help, not even from our own government, in the last analysis."
"I offered to stay awake to let the others go to sleep, and everyone laughed, saying that I would not even hear the cannon! But afterwards, one by one, they fell asleep, and I am watchful over all of them, while working for those who are to come."
"The CNT which is the most powerful organisation in Spain must take up its rightful place in the collective order. Its battles must be in tune with its greatness."
"The liberal government of Spain could have rendered the fascist elements powerless long ago. Instead it compromised and dallied."
"The CNT's prisoners will have to thank the politicians for their release, and that to me who am an anarchist, has enormous implications. I would like to walk free thanks to the efforts of my comrades and not due to the philanthropy of someone whom I have to fight tooth and nail as soon as I am out."
"No government in the world fights fascism to the death. When the bourgeoisie sees power slipping from its grasp, it has recourse to fascism to maintain itself."
"For us, it is a matter of crushing fascism once and for all. Yes; and in spite of the government."
"The Bolshevik government revealed itself to be powerless in the face of a bureaucracy which is super-abundant, parasitic, despotic and dishonest."
"One can lose one's illusions about everything and about everyone, but not about what one affirms with one's moral conscience."
