Gudrun Ensslin quotes

Gudrun Ensslin was a German far-left activist and co-founder of the Red Army Faction, a militant group involved in political violence during the 1970s. Her actions and ideology made her one of the most prominent figures of the German student movement and post-war radicalism. She became a controversial symbol of resistance and extremism in modern German history. Here are 12 of her quotes:

The people in our country and in America and in all West European countries, they have to gorge and guzzle so that they don't even start to think about the fact that we have something to do with Vietnam or what it might be about, OK?

Gudrun Ensslin

Violence is the only way to answer violence.

Gudrun Ensslin

Don't blather that it is too hard. The action to liberate Baader wasn't crocheting doilies either.

Gudrun Ensslin

Wonderful, I like cars, too, I like all the great things you can buy in a department store. But when you have to buy them in order to stay unaware, comatose, then the price you pay is too high.

Gudrun Ensslin

We are brutal with ourselves...., and one of the consequences this could have is that we will be equally brutal and cold with everyone else. Perhaps that's exactly what I've been missing.... A stroke of a sword, a well-aimed bullet must be less than what I feel when I think of being near you.

Gudrun Ensslin

If we made a mistake, then we made a mistake (I don't see it myself); after all, what's been missing in the European fight for socialism over the last 100 years, is the element of 'madness'

Gudrun Ensslin

This is the Auschwitz generation, and there's no arguing with them!

Gudrun Ensslin

Hell YES! Andreas, praxis, you said it!

Gudrun Ensslin

Please never say again that I wanted to be rid of Felix, I am getting frantic here ... When I get out I 'want' Felix terribly, but I don't want to take him away from you.

Gudrun Ensslin

...it is not the lefty ass-kissers you have to agitate, but the objective left-wing...

Gudrun Ensslin