Andreas Baader quotes

Andreas Baader quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“The gun livens things up. The colonized European comes alive, not to the subject and problem of the violence of our circumstances, but because all armed actions subjects the force of circumstances to the force of events.”
-- Andreas Baader

#Gun Quotes #Nihilism Quotes #Events Quotes

“We live in a world that has walls and those walls need to be guarded by men with guns.”
“I'm not gonna shoot anyone with the pellet gun... Not unless I have to!”
“FREE animals of the jungle/air/sea/mountains are called 'wild', 'savage', 'vicious', 'beasts' who defend themselves and their own territories from greedy, ruthless 'brave' men armed to the teeth/ with snares, tranquilizing guns, other. Enslaving them forever, then murdering them, THEN calling them 'dumb'!!!”
“I'll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia, I'll even 'hari-kari' if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun!”
“Fear and hatred are the legacy of Ronald Reagan. America's vision of peace and freedom [is being] blasted by the guns of the U.S. Navy in Lebanon, the guns of U.S. paratroopers in Grenada, and the guns of U.S. helicopters in Honduras and El Salvador.”
“What can be broken, should be broken.”
“I believe that we are all, openly or secretly, struggling against one or another kind of nihilism.”

Source : Ellen Willis (2011). “Out of the Vinyl Deeps: Ellen Willis on Rock Music”, p.65, U of Minnesota Press
“History gets thicker as it approaches recent times: more people, more events, and more books written about them. More evidence is preserved, often, one is tempted to say, too much. Decay and destruction have hardly begun their beneficent work.”
“In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own successes - a virtuous cycle of change.”
“Do not resist events that move you out of your comfort zone, especially when your comfort zone was not all that comfortable.”

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