Top 10 Quotes by Ulrike Meinhof

If you throw one stone, it’s a punishable offence. If 1,000 stones are thrown, it’s political action. If you set a car on fire, it’s a punishable offence. If hundreds of cars are set on fire, it’s political action.

If you throw one stone, it’s a punishable offence. If 1,000 stones are thrown, it’s political action. If you set a car on fire, it’s a punishable offence. If hundreds of cars are set on fire, it’s political action. Protest is when I say I don’t agree with something. Resistance is when I ensure that things with which I disagree no longer take place.

Ulrike Meinhof

Fire, Car, Political

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 Meinhof

Germany, Stopping, Resistance

Ulrike Meinhof (2011). “Everybody Talks About the Weather . . . We Don't: The Writings of Ulrike Meinhof”, p.31, Seven Stories Press

[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

Faces, Rise Against, Terrorism

Anti-Semitism is really a hatred of capitalism.

Ulrike Meinhof

Hatred, Anti Semitism, Capitalism

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

Military, Struggle, Law