Gudrun Ensslin 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
Gudrun Ensslin
Violence is the only way to answer violence. View quote
Gudrun Ensslin
Don't blather that it is too hard. The action to liberate Baader wasn't crocheting doilies either. View quote
Gudrun Ensslin
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
Gudrun Ensslin
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
Gudrun Ensslin
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
Gudrun Ensslin
This is the Auschwitz generation, and there's no arguing with them! View quote
Gudrun Ensslin
Hell YES! Andreas, praxis, you said it! View quote
Gudrun Ensslin
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
Gudrun Ensslin
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
Gudrun Ensslin