Federica Montseny Quotes

We are ready to end fascism once and for all, even in spite of the Republican government.

There are only two roads, victory for the working class, freedom, or victory for the fascists which means tyranny. Both combatants know what's in store for the loser.

The time has come for you to decide whether Italians shall die for Mussolini and Hitler, or live for Italy and for civilization.

Military success against autocratic governments and their selfish and cruel policies of conquest became the one object of the whole people, no matter at what cost.

Totalitarianism, if not fought against, could triumph anywhere.

I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.

I only did my duty to my country when I tried to oppose the criminal folly of Hitler.

I joined the anti-Fascist struggle with my best friend, who was a Jew.

War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.

From a generation that came of age during the Great Depression, millions of our country's best and bravest took up arms in a worldwide struggle against tyranny.

You, the foreign media, have been the companion of my people in its long and painful journey to freedom.

I beheld absolutism in all its power; and I felt encouraged to enter into a struggle against Augustin I.

The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism –-- ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.

The best hope to smash Fascism in the world.

I fight against Fascism; that is my trade.

We have to continue our progressive struggle and defeat the conspiracies of dictatorship.

We'll never join up with the Fascists and Mussolinis of Italy.

Justice, particularly for the oppressed and marginalized in our society, never comes without great effort and sacrifice.

The reign of the tyrant ends with his death, and the reign of the martyr starts with it.

Man and fascism cannot co-exist. If fascism conquers, man will cease to exist and there will remain only man-like creatures that have undergone an internal transformation. But if man, man who is endowed with reason and kindness, should conquer, then Fascism must perish, and those who have submitted to it will once again become people.

What a triumph for the advocates of despotism to find that we are incapable of governing ourselves, and that systems founded on the basis of equal liberty are merely ideal and fallacious.

None of the evils which totalitarianism ... claims to remedy is worse than totalitarianism itself.

The tyrant claims freedom to kill freedom, and yet keep it for himself.

No society has gone the way of gulags or concentration camps by following the path of Spinoza and Einstein and Jefferson and Thomas Paine

To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history; but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist.