Catalonia Quotes

• The communists were mainly responsible for the destruction of the Spanish anarchists. Not just in Catalonia - the communist armies mainly destroyed the collectives elsewhere.

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  Noam Chomsky

  Army   Anarchist   Communist  

  Source: thehumanist.com

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• FC Barcelona is the national team of Catalonia

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  Carles Puyol

  Team   Barcelona   National Team  

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• I don't believe that anyone connected with bullfighting would deny that what happens in the ring has an element of suffering and perhaps cruelty to it. So then it comes back to whether the suffering and cruelty is justified by its place in a tradition that has deep roots in the culture. At present, the view in Catalonia apparently is that it does not.

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  Bette Ford

  Believe   Roots   Views  

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I was a bullfighter. I'd like to see the tradition continue. I'm sorry that Catalonia is robbing itself of a tradition that belongs in Catalonia.

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  Bette Ford

  Sorry   Tradition   Robbing  

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The literature of the Spanish Civil War is also important to me. Above all George Orwell's "Homage to Catalonia" as well as the writing of John Dos Passos and Ernest Hemingway. They worked on a film together in Spain during that war, which ended their friendship.

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  George Packer

  War   Writing   Together  

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• I know that most domesticated animals aren't indigenous to this country. So guess what, cat? You can beat it. Go back to Catalina Island or Catalonia, Spain, or Katmandu, or wherever the hell your hairy ass is from! 'Cause this is America and around here - Katmandon't.

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  Arj Barker

  Country   Cat   Animal  

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