Buenaventura Durruti Quotes

Spain, Revolutionary
July 14, 1896 – November, 20, 1936.

José Buenaventura Durruti Dumange was a Spanish insurrectionary, anarcho-syndicalist militant involved with the CNT, FAI and other anarchist organisations during the period leading up to and including the Spanish Civil War. Durruti played an influential role during the Spanish Revolution and is remembered as a hero in the anarchist movement.

We make war and revolution at the same time. Militiamen are fighting for the conquest of the land, the factories, bread, and culture … the pickaxe and the shovel are as important as the rifle. Comrades, we will win the war!

Buenaventura Durruti
- Time
- Important
- War
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 are not in the least afraid of ruins.

Buenaventura Durruti
- America

The only church that illuminates is a burning church.

Buenaventura Durruti
- Church
We are going to inherit the earth; there is not the slightest doubt about that.

Buenaventura Durruti
- Earth
- Doubt
We carry a new world here, in our hearts. That world is growing this minute.

Buenaventura Durruti
- World
- Growing
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.

Buenaventura Durruti
- Up
- Power
The bourgeoisie might blast and ruin its own world before it leaves the stage of history.

Buenaventura Durruti
- World
- History
You don't fight a war with words, but with fortifications. The pickaxe and the shovel are as important at the rifle. I can't say it often enough.

Buenaventura Durruti
- Important
- War
- Words

We are ready to end fascism once and for all, even in spite of the Republican government.

Buenaventura Durruti
There are only two roads, victory for the working class, freedom, or victory for the fascists which means tyranny. Both combatants know what's in store for the loser.

Buenaventura Durruti
- Freedom
- Victory