Ulrike Meinhof Quotes & Sayings

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

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

Anti-Semitism is really a hatred of capitalism. — Ulrike Meinhof

[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

I can be a subversive element. — Ulrike Meinhof