Gudrun Ensslin 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

Source : "Audiovisions: Cinema and Television as Entr'actes in History". Book by Siegfried Zielinski, 1999.

#Country Quotes #Thinking Quotes #America 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

Source : "Audiovisions: Cinema and Television as Entr'actes in History". Book by Siegfried Zielinski, 1999.

#Believe Quotes #Self Quotes #People Quotes

“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

Source : "Audiovisions: Cinema and Television as Entr'actes in History". Book by Siegfried Zielinski, 1999.

#Order Quotes #Car Quotes #Pay Quotes

“Violence is the only way to answer violence.”
-- Gudrun Ensslin

#Answers Quotes #Way Quotes #Violence Quotes

“Don't blather that it is too hard. The action to liberate Baader wasn't crocheting doilies either.”
-- Gudrun Ensslin

Source : "A Terrorist Call for 'Building a Red Army'". germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org. June 5, 1970.

#Action Quotes #Blather Quotes #Doilies Quotes

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

Source : "A Terrorist Call for 'Building a Red Army'". germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org. June 5, 1970.

#Wings Quotes #Lefties Quotes #Ass Quotes

“I am a big admirer of Sachin and his personality. He is a source of inspiration for the country and just looking at his photographs gives a lot of positive vibes.”

“To Lawren Harris art was almost a mission. He believed that a country which ignored the arts left no record of itself worth preserving.”

“A hero would die for his country, but he'd much rather live for it.”

“You are talking to a leftist. I believe in the redistribution of wealth and power in the world. I believe in universal hospital care for everyone. I believe that we should not have a single homeless person in the richest country in the world. And I believe that we should not have a C.I.A. that goes around overwhelming governments and assassinating political leaders, working for tight oligarchies around the world to protect the tight oligarchy here at home.”

“It is always the young that make the change. You don't get these ideas when you're middle-aged. Young people have daring, creativity, imagination and personal computers. Above all, what you have as young people that's vitally needed to make social change, is impatience. You want it to happen now. There have to be enough people that say, ‘We want it now, in our lifetime.’ This is your moment. This is your opportunity. Be adventurists in the sense of being bold and daring. Be opportunists and seize this opportunity, this moment in history, to go out and save our country. It's your turn now.”

“Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.”

“I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.”

“Shammiji is said to be India's answer to Elvis Presley, but I say that Elvis Presley is America's answer to Shammi Kapoor. The mark of a good actor is the belief with which he gives a shot and Shammiji gave his each shot with a strong belief and that makes him a great actor of all times.”

“Together, these advocates create a pro-Israeli case so compelling that the idea and reality of Israel has worked itself deep into American culture, politics and foreign policy. Many American Jews refuse to accept it, but the real debate between Israel’s supporters and detractors in America is all but over.”

“In America, people think being South Asian is still kind of exotic. When you go outside New York and Chicago and L.A., there are people who have never tried Indian food... they've never even tasted it!”