Top 24 Meinhof Quotes

#1. Objection is when I say: this doesn't suit me. Resistance is when I make sure that what doesn't suit me never happens again.

Ulrike Marie Meinhof

#2. Far beneath the rusty Baltimore dawn, stirrings in the maximum security ward. Down where it is never dark the tormented sense beginning day as oysters in a barrel open to their lost tide. God's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again and the ravers cleared their throats.

Thomas Harris

#3. If you look up "charming" in the dictionary, you'll see that it not only has references to strong attraction, but to spells and magic. Then again, what are liars if not great magicians?

Deb Caletti

#4. was yet of many accounted beautiful.

William Shakespeare

#5. Real life is about reacting quickly to the opportunity at hand, not the opportunity you envisioned. Not thinking and scheming for the future, but letting it happen.

Conan O'Brien

#6. 0 beautiful for patriot dream That sees beyond the years Thine alabaster cities gleam Undimmed by human tears! America! America! God shed his grace on thee, And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea!

Katharine Lee Bates

#7. Baader-Meinhof Gruppe, they are called also." "Yes.

Jonathan Lethem

#8. Protest is when I say I don't like this. Resistance is when I put an end to what I don't like. Protest is when I say I refuse to go along with this anymore. Resistance is when I make sure everybody else stops going along too.

Ulrike Marie Meinhof

#9. If one sets a car on fire, that is a criminal offence. If one sets hundreds of cars on fire, that is political action.

Ulrike Meinhof

#10. The earning of money should be a means to an end; for more than thirty years
I began to support myself at sixteen
I had to regard it as the end itself.

George Gissing

#11. I have no problem with whatever the next big look is. Just don't try and tell me that only one look is beautiful.

Alek Wek

#12. I can be a subversive element.

Ulrike Meinhof

#13. Vocabulary is a matter of word-building as well as word-using.

David Crystal

#14. It is not possible to become a great player without having learned how to analyse deeply and accurately.

Mark Dvoretsky

#15. Bend words. Stretch them, squash them, mash them up, fold them. Turn them over or swing them upside down. Make up new words. Leave a place for the strange and downright impossible ones. Use ancient words. Hold on to the gangly, silly, slippy, truthful, dangerous, out-of-fashion ones.

Kyo Maclear

#16. She's been through growing up without a mother & makes my heart all of a sudden.

Kang Seung-jo

#17. Romanists tell us that the Pope is the vicar of Christ; that he is his successor as the universal head and ruler of the Church on earth. If this is so, he must be a Christ.

Charles Hodge

#18. Protest is when I say this does not please me. Resistance is when I ensure what does not please me occurs no more.

Ulrike Marie Meinhof

#19. The difference between a great soul and an ordinary man is this: the latter weeps while leaving this body, whereas the former laughs. Death seems to him a mere play.

Sarada Devi

#20. She lived just three blocks away, in a faded brick building whose limitations and malfunctions she'd come to understand as the texture of her life, to be distinguished from a normal day's complaints.

Don DeLillo

#21. [I provoke] the system [to] show its true face ... so that through its own acts of terrorism ... the masses will rise against it.

Ulrike Meinhof

#22. These are the strategic dialectics of anti-imperialist struggle: through the defensive reactions of the system, the escalation of counterrevolution, the transformation of the political martial law into military martial law, the enemy betrays himself, becomes visible.

Ulrike Meinhof

#23. Anti-Semitism is really a hatred of capitalism.

Ulrike Meinhof

#24. If the human body's obscene, complain to the manufacturer, not me.

Larry Flynt

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