Federica Montseny Quotes

Everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was “legal,” and everything the Hungarian Freedom Fighters did in Hungary was “illegal.”

A pattern has developed under the Maduro regime. When pressure builds, the first recourse is to repress and persecute. I know this because buckshot pellets fired by members of the armed forces - at peaceful protesters in 2017 - remain lodged in my own body. A minor price to pay compared to the sacrifices made by some of my compatriots.

Listen, 'The Purge' actually exists in some form or another in many places around the world when you think about it.

When despots rule, cartoonists die.

Constant pressure by Turkish consulates across the United States, as well as pervasive and continual harassment by the government in Turkey, has so far failed to stifle my dissent. As they increase the pressure, I raise my voice.

Doing politics in Venezuela is a risk, and you can pay with your life.

I fear that within 10 years gays, trade union activists and left wing politicians will be led off to the gas chambers.

We know what totalitarian looks like, we know what oppression looks like, we know what the dumb culture of totalitarianism smells like. This is it! It's happening now, and the future of the world is being decided. So, get out there, make your own sites, take action!

In Russia a man is called reactionary if he objects to having his property stolen and his wife and children murdered.

Where books are burnt, men finish up being burnt too.

Where books are burned in the end people will be burned too.

Those who begin by burning books will end by burning people.

Singling out political opponents for working against the ruling party is precisely the tactic of every tyrannical government from Red China to Venezuela. The first step in the process is creating unfounded public suspicion of political opponents, followed by arresting and jailing any who continue speaking against the regime.

Also, when you escape a Communist regime, you treasure liberty and you understand that as government and state expand, liberty must contract.

Unfortunately, writing and reporting the truth is not allowed under Castro's tyrannical dictatorship.

Fascism is fascism. Terrorism is terrorism. Oppression is oppression.

A State infinitely worse than that which the most inflamed Zealot, the most violent Republican or Enthusiast even pretended to dread before the Rebellion commenced.

The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.

Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.

Being born in Cuba, a country where freedom of speech is non-existent, it's startling to observe how Venezuela, where I was happily raised, is fast becoming Cuba's mirror image: Dismantling of fundamental democratic rights deserved by its people and citizens of the world.

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.

This power, this authority, Soviet power: they killed everybody who could make any resistance, who could explain his own way of thinking and who could follow his own way of thinking, of believing.

I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites.

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.