"We need no messiah and no sterile conception……" — Federica Montseny

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

18 Quotes by Federica Montseny

Federica Montseny has 18 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

We tried many times before to speed on the social revolution in Spain; attempted to stir up the feelings of…
Authority is something from which we are constantly subtracting, of which there remains always a residue, and which we attempt…
But we must create in each person a sense of responsibility in order that each one of us can have…
The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.
The struggle is so great that the triumph over fascism alone is worth the sacrifice of our lives.
Our constancy, same might call it our madness, was necessary to wear down the oppressive forces of the old democracy…
Men are as we have always known them, neither better nor worse from the hearts of rogues there springs a…
The people themselves, and only the people, determine the rhythm of our fight.
Prostitution presents a moral, economic and social problem that cannot be resolved juridically.
In Spain, we should have enough intelligence, enough sense of individual and collective responsibility to do for ourselves that which…
In order to fully realise our aspirations, we must create in the masses of the people the sense of sacrifice…
We have confirmed something we only knew in theory, namely that revolution, in which uncontrolled and uncontrollable forces operate imperiously,…

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I've always been pro-life from conception to natural death. It's important for the Republican nominee to maintain what we stand… — Michele Bachmann
We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means… — Charles Baudelaire
Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of… — Jane Addams
In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes. — Theodor Adorno
I made a conscious decision not to tell anyone in my life. Now I tell people - don't tell anyone… — Sara Blakely
I have formed a very clear conception of patriotism. I have generally found it thrust into the foreground by some… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Our attitude toward abortion . . . is fixed by our knowledge that according to an eternal plan all of… — Dallin H. Oaks
The prevailing idea seems to be, that I come to God and ask Him for something that I want, and… — Arthur W. Pink
Equality and justice, the two great distinguishing characteristics of democracy, follow inevitably from the conception of men, all men, as… — Robert M. Hutchins
In all this process of acquiring conceptions, a certain instinctive order is followed. There is a native tendency to assimilate… — William James
Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech. — Thomas Hobbes

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"We need no messiah and no sterile conception……" — Federica Montseny

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