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“We’re not feeling edgy; the system is feeling nervous.”
― Red Army Faction

“The fact is that the system in the metropole reproduces itself through an ongoing offensive against the people’s psyche, not in an openly fascist way, but rather through the market.

Therefore, to write off entire sections of the population as an impediment to anti-imperialist struggle, simply because they don’t fit into Marx’ analysis of capitalism, is as insane and sectarian as it is un-Marxist.”
― Red Army Faction

“The rejection of sabotage in the metropole, based on the argument that it would be better to take things over instead of destroying them, is based on the dictum: The people of the Third World should wait for their revolution until the masses in the metropole catch up.”
― Red Army Faction

“They see in the political apathy of the proletariat only the apathy, not the protest against a system that has nothing to offer them.”
― Red ARMY FACTION

“They see in the population’s hostility towards the left only the hostility towards the left, not the hatred against those who are socially privileged.”
― Red ARMY FACTION

“Following this logic, to bomb BASF in Ludwigshafen would be to mock the people who bombed BASF in Brazil. The Latin American comrades feel differently. BASF does as well.”
― Red Army Faction

“In its offensive against the state, the urban guerilla cannot resort to terrorism as a weapon.”
― Red Army Faction

“There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn't.”
― Leonard Cohen

“Fish cannot carry guns.”
― Philip K. Dick, VALIS

“Pity the theory which sets itself in opposition to the mind! It cannot repair this contradiction by any humility, and the humbler it is so much the sooner will ridicule and contempt drive it from real life.”
― Carl Von Clausewitz, On War

“There are cases in which the greatest daring is the greatest wisdom.”
― Carl Von Clausewitz, On War

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“I grew up in the midst of poverty but every black kid that I knew could read and write. We have to talk about the fact that we cannot educate for critical consciousness if we have a group of people who cannot access Fanon, Cabral, or Audre Lorde because they can’t read or write. How did Malcolm X radicalize his consciousness? He did it through books. If you deprive working-class and poor black people of access to reading and writing, you are making them that much farther removed from being a class that can engage in revolutionary resistance.”
― bell hooks

“Could it be that toxic mimics are toxic because they ignore responsibility, they ignore relationship, they ignore presence, they substitute control for fluidity and choice?”
― Ward Churchill

“Thus natural science is not a way of knowing the real world; its value lies not in its truth but in its utility; by scientific thought we do not know nature, we dismember it in order to master it.”
― R.G. Collingwood, The Idea of History

“Writing is self-reinforcing. Don't make a fetish out of it, and don't surrender to the myth of the garret, or the myth of the chained muse. It's like playing the guitar, or practicing taekwondo, or having sex. The more you do, the better you get. The better you get, the better it feels. The better it feels, the more you want to do.”
― Jay Lake

“Come all you young rebels and list while I sing
For the love of one's country is a terrible thing
It banishes fear with the speed of a flame
And it makes us all part of their pattriot game.”
― Dominic Behan

“There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into the abyss of despair.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“Carelessness on the part of revolutionaries has always been the best aid the police have.”
― Victor Serge

“I believe there's something very salutary in, say, beating up a gay-bashing policeman. Preferably one fights through the courts, through the laws, through education, but if at a neighborhood level violence is necessary, I'm all for violence. It's the only thing Americans understand.”
― Gore Vidal

“These people who judge us should take a city bus or a cab through the South Bronx, the Central Ward of Newark, North Philadelphia, the Northwest section of the District of Columbia or any Third World reservation, and see if they can note a robbery in progress. See if they recognize the murder of innocent people. This is the issue, the myth that the Imperialists should not be confronted and cannot be beaten is eroding fast and we stand here ready to do whatever to make the myth erode even faster, and to say for the record that not only will the Imperialist U.S. lose, but that it should lose.”
― Kuwasi Balagoon, A Soldier's Story: Writings by a Revolutionary New Afrikan Anarchist

“I don't believe in charity. I believe in solidarity.”
― Eduardo Galeano

“Some times I think this whole world
Is one big prison yeard
Some of us are prisoners
The rest of us are guards”
― Bob Dylan

“It's very contradictory for a man to teach about the murder in corporate capitalism, to isolate and expose the murderers behind it, to instruct that these madmen are completely without stops, are licentious, totally depraved — and then not make adequate preparations to defend himself from the madman's attack. Either they don't really believe their own spiel or they harbor some sort of subconscious death wish.”
― George L. Jackson, Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson

“The intellectual was rejected and persecuted at the precise moment when the facts became incontrovertible, when it was forbidden to say that the emperor had no clothes. ”
― Michel Foucault

“A lot of people don't have much food on their table. But they got a lot of forks 'n knives. And they got to cut somethin'.”
― Bob Dylan

“There is no such thing as intellectual property.”
― Jean-Luc Godard

“The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed.”
― William Gibson