"In trench warfare five things are important: firewood, food, tobacco, candles, and the enemy. In winter on the Zaragoza front they were important in that order, with the enemy a bad last."
George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia
"Men speak of God’s love for man but if providence does not come in this hour, where is He then?"
Daniel S. Fletcher
"As time went on, the Communists and the POUM wrote more bitterly about one another than about the Fascists."
George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia
"If I did compress what I know and think about the Spanish Civil War into six lines you wouldn't print it. You wouldn't have the guts."
George Orwell, Essays
"No pasarán!"
Dolores Ibárruri"
"The pictures are there. You just take them."
Robert Capa
"The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda.
Robert Capa
"Whatever the reasons may be, I was very much affected by events of the 1930s - the Spanish Civil War, for example, though I was barely literate."
Noam Chomsky
"Even Hemingway, perhaps the most intentionally non-political of American writers, became passionately partisan during the Spanish Civil War."
Adam Hothschild
"We strive to form a single national front against the Judeo-Masonic lodges, against Moscow and the Marxist societies."
Francisco Franco
"Apart from the victorious October socialist revolution in Russia, the just war of the Spanish people was one of the greatest events in the international liberation movement of working people."
José Díaz
"The only church that illuminates is one which is aflame."
Buenaventura Durruti
"One thing that I am sure of, and which I can answer truthfully, is that whatever the contingencies that may arise here, wherever I am there will be no communism."
Francisco Franco
"I most sincerely wish to go on record as being unalterably opposed to Franco and fascism, to all violations of the legal government and outrages against the people of Republican Spain."
William Faulkner
"Just like any honest man, I am against Franco and Fascism in Spain."
Ernest Hemingway
"The most baffling thing in the Spanish war was the behaviour of the great powers."
George Orwell
"General Franco, whom Sir Winston Churchill has praised as a gallant Christian gentleman, has forbidden any work of fiction alluding to adultery, though I believe he has made a special exception for the Iliad."
Bertrand Russel
"If I were a Spaniard I should be fighting for General Franco. As an Englishman I am not in the predicament of choosing between two evils. I am not a Fascist, nor shall I become one unless it were the only alternative to Marxism. It is mischievous to suggest that such a choice is imminent.
Evelyn Waugh
"General Franco made it clear that Spain could enter the war only when England was about ready to collapse."
Admiral Wilhelm Canaris
"Neither the Nazis nor the Italians were able to cash in on their investments in Spain."
Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
"Spain’s struggle is a Crusade; as soldiers of God we carry with us the evangelism of the world!"
Francisco Franco
"I am responsible only to God and history."
Francisco Franco
"A Homeland, A State, A Leader."
Francisco Franco
"The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed."
Federica Montseny
"A war between Europeans is a civil war."
Victor Hugo
"We cannot destroy them. But we can educate the people so that they will fear fascism and recognize it as it appears and combat it."
Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls
"Vallejo was at least metaphorically killed by fascist forces, in the sense that he wore himself out raising funds for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War and got sick and died."
Robert Hass
"In this hour I don’t want to forget the admirable Spanish woman, who knew how to conduct her children towards struggle and death, so much so that I don’t know who is more worthy of admiration, the son who falls dead on the battlefield or the mother who pushed him towards the fight and towards glory."
Francisco Franco
"Let the past vanish into nothingness! What do we care for yesterday? We want to write anew the word WOMAN."
Lucia Sanchez Saomil, Anthem of Mujeres Libres
"They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. But in modern war there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason."
Ernest Hemingway
"A totalitarian state will harmonize in Spain the operation of all the capabilities and energy in the country, that inside the National Unity, the work esteemed as the most unavoidable must be the only exponent of the people's will."
Francisco Franco
"Liberty will not descend to a People. A People must raise themselves to Liberty."
Emma Goldman
"I do not believe in God, because I believe in man."
Emma Goldman
"The quickest way to end a war is to lose it."
George Orwell
"It is right, he told himself, not reassuringly, but proudly."
Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls
"George Orwell, John Dos Passos, and Ernest Hemingway worked on a film together during that war. It ended their friendship."
George Packer
"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past."
George Orwell, 1984
"Forget it Louis, no civil war picture ever made a nickel."
Irving Thalberg
"An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all."
Oscar Wilde
"There is no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war, except its ending."
Abraham Lincoln
"War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it."
George Orwell
"War loses a great deal of romance after a soldier has seen his first battle."
Col. John Singleton Mosby
"Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception."
George Orwell
"To witness an injustice and do nothing, that is the biggest crime."
Bill Bailey
"War is war. The only good human being is a dead one."
George Orwell
"To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves."
Federico García Lorca
"In Spain the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world."
Federico García Lorca
"For what are we born if not to aid one another?"
Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls
"A house divided against itself cannot stand"
Abraham Lincoln
"It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengence, more desolation. War is hell."
William Tecumseh Sherman
"Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility."
George Orwell