Buenaventura Durruti

“The only church that illuminates is a burning church.”

“We are not in the least afraid of ruins. We are going to inherit the earth; there is not the slightest doubt about that.”

“The bourgeoisie might blast and ruin its own world before it leaves the stage of history. We carry a new world here, in our hearts.”

“That world is growing in this minute.”

“It is we the workers who built these palaces and cities, here in Spain and in America and everywhere. We, the workers, can build others to take their place. And better ones!”

“We have always lived in slums and holes in the wall. We will know how to accommodate ourselves for a time. For you must not forget that we can also build.”

“No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands, it brings up fascism to hold onto their privileges.”

“There are only two roads, victory for the working class, freedom, or victory for the fascists which means tyranny.”

“We anarchists do not want to emancipate the people; we want the people to emancipate themselves.”

“We are giving Hitler and Mussolini far more worry with our revolution than the whole of the Red Army of Russia. We are setting an example to the German and Italian working class on how to deal with fascism.”