For all those who experienced it, the Spanish Civil War was devastating. — Michael Portillo Copy Share Image
My own father was a refugee from the Spanish civil war in the 1930s, later going on to become a BBC radio… — Michael Portillo Copy Share Image
“[The POUM] posters, designed for a wider public (posters are important in Spain, with its large illiterate population).” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Mum and Dad met campaigning on the Spanish civil war. Both were active peace campaigners. They died in 1986 and '87. — Jeremy Corbyn Copy Share Image
“As time went on, the Communists and the POUM wrote more bitterly about one another than about the Fascists.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
There was so much going on in 1936 with the height of the Great Depression and the Spanish Civil War and Germany… — Matt Bomer Copy Share Image
[Cesar] Vallejo was at least metaphorically killed by fascist forces, in the sense that he wore himself out raising funds for the… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Whatever the reasons may be, I was very much affected by events of the 1930s - the Spanish Civil War, for example,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When I wrote about the Spanish Civil War many years later, I used documents that I picked up when I was a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Glory of war, indeed! In war, all soldiers are lousy, at least when it is warm enough. The men who fought at… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The literature of the Spanish Civil War is also important to me. Above all George Orwell's "Homage to Catalonia" as well as… — George Packer Copy Share Image
The Spanish Civil War, Britain was not involved in it. Going back a bit, there was the naval blockade to stop the… — Jeremy Corbyn Copy Share Image
“Widespread violence against civilians also demonstrated that the Spanish Civil War was, sadly enough, not a unique case in modern history: such… — Geoffrey Jensen Copy Share Image
“You will never find peace with these fascists You'll never find friends such as we So remember that valley of Jarama And… — Woody Guthrie Copy Share Image
Some 2,800 Americans went to Spain [during the Spanish Civil War], and it was, by far, the largest number of Americans before… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
“We piled into the back of his big red Sun-Times truck: Robertson, McHugh, a bagpipe player, assorted other regulars, and Good Sydney… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I went through the communist children's movement at the age of nine, in 1930, and into the Young Communist League in 1936.… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
“At a conservative estimate, one million dollars will be spent by American readers for this book [For Whom the Bell Tolls]. They… — Commonweal Copy Share Image
... there was the first Balkan war and the second Balkan war and then there was the first world war. It is… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
“That was my story. Or at least the way I remember it. What happened to those characters and the places that had… — María Dueñas Copy Share Image
“I think it was probably both the coincidence and the beer that made Miralles say at some point that we were going… — Javier Cercas Copy Share Image
“Men speak of God’s love for man… but if providence does not come in this hour, where is He then? My conclusion… — Daniel S. Fletcher Copy Share Image
“The Spanish Civil War proved both the revolutionary vigour of communitarian bonds and forms which have been penetrated by capital but which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Bloomsbury lost Fry, in 1934, and Lytton Strachey before him, in January 1932, to early deaths. The loss of Strachey was compounded… — Jane Goldman Copy Share Image
“As one of the leading French anarchist thinkers and friend of Bakunin, Élisée Reclus, put it: “The external form of society must… — Bernard Schweizer Copy Share Image
“Hallie didn't believe she was invulnerable. She was never one of those daredevil types; she knew she could get hurt. What I… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I know [Arthur Koestler] fought in the Spanish Civil War. He was in prison, I think, in Spain and in Russia. He… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
Even [Ernst] Hemingway, perhaps the most intentionally non-political of American writers, became passionately partisan during the Spanish Civil War. — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
The thing about Hemingway that people forget is that all the stuff he did was at a time where people weren't traveling… — Clive Owen Copy Share Image
“Based upon his experiences during the Spanish Civil War, Richthofen employed his seven Stukagruppen and single ground-attack Gruppe to devastating effect by… — Helmit Mahlke Copy Share Image
Some of my earliest political feelings were based on the anti-Japanese bubblegum cards I got. There were also Spanish Civil War bubblegum… — Ed Asner Copy Share Image
“In trench warfare five things are important: firewood, food, tobacco, candles, and the enemy. In winter on the Zaragoza front they were… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Modifying Clausewitz’ aphorism—war is the continuation of diplomacy by other means—one could say that in ideologically divided countries civil war is but… — Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Copy Share Image
During the 1980s, international interest in the Nicaraguan war was intense. No conflict since the Spanish civil war had provoked such passion… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
You don't have to pose your camera. The pictures are there, and you just take them. The truth is the best picture,… — Robert Capa Copy Share Image
“There is such a weight of history behind this that it makes Valerio feel weak. He has never experienced anything of the… — Sahar Delijani Copy Share Image
I think in many ways, the Spanish Civil War was the first battle of World War II. After all, where else in… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
“Poem Heart of the heartless world, Dear heart, the thought of you Is the pain at my side, The shadow that chills… — John Cornford Copy Share Image
I went to live in Barcelona in 1975, when I was twenty. Even before I went there, I knew more about the… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
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![“Some 2,800 Americans went to Spain [during the Spanish Civil War], and it was, by far, the largest number of Americans before or since who've ever joined somebody else's civil war. I think they were primarily people who were deeply alarmed by the menace of fascism. They saw this on the horizon. I…” quote by Adam Hochschild](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/7cf/adam-hochschild-4138_civil-war_some-2-800-americans-went-to-spain-durin_3139882.jpg)
![“At a conservative estimate, one million dollars will be spent by American readers for this book [For Whom the Bell Tolls]. They will get for their money 34 pages of permanent value. These 34 pages tell of a massacre happening in a little Spanish town in the early days of the Civil War...Mr…” quote by Commonweal](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/3cd/commonweal-147682_bad-reviews_at-a-conservative-estimate-one-million-d_1031377.jpg)
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