#me

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. ↗

— Frederica Montseny

#attempt #authority #constantly #make #remains

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. ↗

— Frederica Montseny

#anarchism #come #comrades #could #countries

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. ↗

— Frederica Montseny

#aspirations #been #characteristic #create #development

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. ↗

— Frederica Montseny

#appetite #better #blood #brutish #depths

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. ↗

— Frederica Montseny

#confirmed #cruel #destructive #forces #grandiose

We need no messiah and no sterile conception of a god menacing us with hell and purgatory. ↗

— Frederica Montseny

#god #hell #menacing #messiah #need

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. ↗

— Frederica Montseny

#banner #before #communism #feelings #libertarian

A rule I have had for years is: to treat the Lord Jesus Christ as a personal friend. His is not a creed, a mere doctrine, but it is He Himself we have. ↗

— Dwight L. Moody

#creed #doctrine #friend #had #himself

Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement. ↗

— Dwight L. Moody

#become #begin #empty #filled #later

Where one man reads the Bible, a hundred read you and me. ↗

— Dwight L. Moody

#hundred #man #me #read #reads