Top 10 Quotes & Sayings by Ulrike Meinhof

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a German journalist Ulrike Meinhof.

Last updated on December 19, 2024.

Ulrike Marie Meinhof was a German left-wing journalist and founding member of the Red Army Faction (RAF) in West Germany, commonly referred to in the press as the "Baader-Meinhof gang". She is the reputed author of The Urban Guerilla Concept (1971). The manifesto acknowledges the RAF's "roots in the history of the student movement"; condemns "reformism" as "a brake on the anti-capitalist struggle"; and invokes Mao Zedong to define "armed struggle" as "the highest form of Marxism-Leninism".

German - Journalist | October 7, 1934 - May 9, 1976

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[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

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

Anti-Semitism is really a hatred of capitalism.

Ulrike Meinhof

Protest is when I say this does not please me. Resistance is when I ensure what does not please me occurs no more.

Ulrike Meinhof

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

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 Meinhof

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

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

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

I can be a subversive element.

Ulrike Meinhof