Buenaventura Durruti Quotes

• We are going to inherit the earth . There is not the slightest doubt about that. The bourgeoisie may blast and burn its own world before it finally leaves the stage of history. We Are not afraid of ruins. We who ploughed the prairies and built the cities can build again, only better next time. We carry a new world, here in our hearts. That world is growing this minute.

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  Heart, Cities, History

  Interview with Pierre van Paassen, The Toronto Daily Star, July 24, 1936.

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• 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.

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  Fighting, Government, Hands

  The Toronto Daily Star, August 5, 1936.

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• The only church that illuminates is a burning church.

  Buenaventura Durruti

  Funny, Religious, Humorous

  "The Monstrosity of Christ : Paradox or Dialectic?". Book by Creston Davis, 2009.

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• The bourgeoisie might blast and ruin its own world before it leaves the stage of history.

  Buenaventura Durruti

  Bourgeoisie, World, Might

  The Toronto Daily Star, August 5, 1936.

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• We carry a new world in our hearts. That world is growing every minute.

  Buenaventura Durruti

  Heart, World, Growing

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• We know what we want. To us it means nothing that there is a Soviet Union somewhere in the world, for the sake of whose peace and tranquility the workers of Germany and China were sacrificed to Fascist barbarians by Stalin. We want revolution here in Spain, right now, not maybe after the next European war. We are giving Hitler and Mussolini far more worry with our revolution than the whole Red Army of Russia. We are setting an example to the German and Italian working class on how to deal with Fascism.

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  War, Mean, Army

  The Toronto Daily Star, August 5, 1936.

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• I consider discipline indispensable, but it must be inner discipline, motivated by a common purpose and a strong feeling of comradeship.

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  Strong, Common Purpose, Discipline

  "Durruti Is Dead, Yet Living". Essay by Emma Goldman, 1936.

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• 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.

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  Mean, Two, Class

  The Toronto Daily Star, August 5, 1936.

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• It is we who built these palaces and cities, here in Spain and America and everywhere. We, the workers. We can build others to take their place. And better ones. We are not in the least afraid of ruins.

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  Cities, America, Spain

  The Toronto Daily Star, August 5, 1936.

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

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  Doubt, Earth, Ruins

  The Toronto Daily Star, August 5, 1936.

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• Basically the message is: Steal It! Art, music, culture, the odd book and the slab of cheese... the new will be built upon the ruins of the old.

  Buenaventura Durruti

  Art, Book, Ruins

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• I have been an Anarchist all my life.

  Buenaventura Durruti

  Anarchist, Has Beens

  "Durruti is Dead, Yet Living". Essay by Emma Goldman, 1936.

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

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  Government, Republican, Ends

  The Toronto Daily Star, August 5, 1936.

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• That world is growing in this minute.

  Buenaventura Durruti

  World, Growing, Minutes

  The Toronto Daily Star, August 5, 1936.

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