“Well, this state of things that you find admirable, seems to me bestially fanatical, repugnantly immoral, repulsively vile.”
“Of course, for you are a pessimist about things as they are, like any good revolutionist. You believe that you are going to improve life at Castro. You alone?” “I, united with others.”
“And meanwhile you introduce anarchy into the city.”
“I introduce anarchy! No. I introduce order. I want to finish with the anarchy already reigning in Castro and make it submit to a thought, to a worthy, noble thought.”
“And by what right do you arrogate to yourself the power to do this?”
“By the right of being the stronger.”
“Ah! Good. If you should get to be the weaker, you ought not to complain if we should misuse our strength.”
“Complain! When you have been misusing it for thousands of years! At this very moment, we do the talking, we make the protests, but you people give the orders.”
“We offset your idiotic behaviour. We stand in the way of your utopias. Do you think you are going to solve the problem of this earth, and that of Capital? Are you going to solve the sexual question? Are you going to institute a society without inequality or injustice, as Dr. Ortigosa said in La Libertad the other day? To me it seems very difficult.”
“To me too. But that is what there is to try for.”