Gudrun Ensslin

"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 l…"

"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 dra…"

"If we made a mistake, then we made a mistake ; after all, what's been missing in the European fight for socialism over the last 100 years, is the element of 'madness'"

"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 Vietn…"

"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 …"

"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."

"Violence is the only way to answer violence."

"Don’t blather that it is too hard. The action to liberate Baader wasn’t crocheting doilies either."