Concepción Arenal Quotes

Error is a weapon that always ends up shooting back at the one who uses it.

When the blame is on everyone, the blame is on no one.

Pain is the dignity of misfortune.

An isolated man feels weak, and he is.

In many cases we do out of vanity or fear what we would do out of duty.

A community that cannot think, cannot live.

Bad laws will always find, and contribute to creating, men worse than them, in charge of executing them.

It would be absurd to ask of calculation what self-sacrifice can provide.

The one who is unaware of a duty is not as guilty as the one who accepts it and tramples on it.

All power falls at the impulses of the evil it has done. Every fault it has committed becomes, sooner or later, a battering ram that contributes to bringing it down.

Everything that hardens, demoralizes.

There is so much justice in charity and so much charity in justice that the hope of the day when they are confused does not seem crazy.