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:

I just can't believe that there won't come a day when people won't be fed-up with being overfed. That they won't get fed-up with the self-deception that all this fantastic food is the whole point of life. (Gudrun Ensslin)
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? View quote
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Violence is the only way to answer violence. View quote
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Don't blather that it is too hard. The action to liberate Baader wasn't crocheting doilies either. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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' View quote
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This is the Auschwitz generation, and there's no arguing with them! View quote
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Hell YES! Andreas, praxis, you said it! View quote
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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. View quote
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Ahab makes a great impression on his first appearance in Moby Dick... And if either by birth or by circumstance something pathological was at work deep in his nature, this did not detract from his dramatic character. For tragic greatness always derives from a morbid break with health, you can be sure of that. (Gudrun Ensslin)
...it is not the lefty ass-kissers you have to agitate, but the objective left-wing... View quote
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