Basques Quote by Mark Kurlansky

“During the first part of the 1930s, Spain saw the fall of its monarchy, its first democracy, a major revolutionary insurrection, an attempted military…

— Geoffrey Jensen

“The European dream was dead, he thought, the Europe of grand ideals was buried in the ashes of apathy. There was no brotherhood of…

— Mark Samuels

“The forests were crippled, the wheat fields vanished; in place of the grass there reappeared stone and drifting sand. Men perished and moved on,…

— Alfred Rosenberg

“I can remember when I was a bit of an ETA fan myself. It was in 1973, when a group of Basque militants assassinated…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Even to an outsider like myself, not only in the theatre was such disunity evident, but in much else in government Spain. Alvarez del…

— Langston Hughes

It was in Spain that [my generation] learned that one can be right and yet be beaten, that force can vanquish spirit, that there…

— Albert Camus

Our constancy, same might call it our madness, was necessary to wear down the oppressive forces of the old democracy which, in Spain, was…

— Federica Montseny

Dreams have consequences. There is no turning back. A revolution is not a painless march to the gates of freedom and justice. It is…

— Hisham Matar

There flows throughout our whole history a stream of humanity, of generosity, of tolerance, so broad, so powerful, and so pure that it would…

— Ignacy Jan Paderewski

Albania in 1994 was the strangest place I've ever seen. It was like walking into the looking glass: falling apart, paranoid people, anarchy, no…

— Paul Theroux

The character and fight against fascism moved centre stage when, in 1936, Franco attempted to overthrow by force the Popular Front Government of Republican Spain.

— Bill Alexander

“Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema noted that "through the entire war, one dream never left us, not for single day : our homecoming to Holland as…

— Lynne Olson