Ulrike 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. Hate blows a bubble of despair into
hugeness world system universe and bang
-fear buries a tomorrow under woe
and up comes yesterday most green and young

E. E. Cummings

#3. 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

#4. The lesser grindstone stood alone there in the calm morning air, with a red upon it that the sun had never given, and would never take away.

Charles Dickens

#5. 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

#6. I can be a subversive element.

Ulrike Meinhof

#7. England is unrivalled for two things - sport and politics.

Benjamin Disraeli

#8. 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

#9. Focus on keeping your spine straight. It is the job of the spine to keep the brain alert.

B.K.S. Iyengar

#10. Focus only on what you love. Don't think about what you don't want - think about what you do want. Anything else is just a waste of energy.

Ulrike Maria

#11. For art is about desire, is it not, and never its consummation?

A. Manette Ansay

#12. As for my memory, I have a particularly good one. I never keep any record of my investigations or experiments. My memory files all these things away conveniently and reliably. I should say, though, that I didn't cumber it up with a lot of useless matter.

Charles Proteus Steinmetz

#13. [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

#14. 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

#15. When you inoculate children with a polio vaccine, you don't sleep well for two or three months.

Jonas Salk

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

Ulrike Meinhof

#17. If a choice is given to us between being mortal and being immortal, you will find no one in the group of mortals!

Mehmet Murat Ildan