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Winston S. Churchill
“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”
Winston Churchill

“I don't really know; I'm not in the Operations Room, you see. All I do know is that the world has a Chief who was victorious when the powers of darkness struck at Him with everything they had. He has the plans today. The darkness won't last forever. There's a splendor beyond.
~Flying Officer George Dymory Ingleford, Enemy Brothers”
Constance Savery, Enemy Brothers

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

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

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

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 Marxâ€� analysis of capitalism, is as insane and sectarian as it is un-Marxist.”
Red Army Faction

“And at the end of the evening he and Dym had made plans, airy ambitious plans, of all that they would do after the war. Euphemia had laughed at the planners. “What boundless energy you have, Jacob!â€� she had said.
Jacob had turned - Tony could see the dark, curly head and sparkling eyes quite plainly - and smiled at her. “Madam,â€� he had said, “if I had a thousand lives, I could fill them all.”
Constance Savery

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

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

Red Army Faction
“In its offensive against the state, the urban guerilla cannot resort to terrorism as a weapon.”
Red Army Faction
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“We piled aboard the small chopper and after a bit of map pointing to the pilot we lifted off.
"I love the RAF," said Jed.
"I love them too, sir," said I.
After a short flight the chopper landed. We all got out and waved our thanks and farewells to the crew and Major Jenner checked his map. After a quick examination he announced that we had been dropped in the wrong place.
"I fucking hate the RAF," said Jed.
"I fucking hate them too, sir," said I.”
Ken Lukowiak, A Soldiers Song: True Stories From The Falklands

C.S. Lewis
“The educated man, habitually, almost without noticing it, sees the present as something that grows out of a long perspective of centuries. In my the minds of my RAF hearers this perspective simply did not exist. It seemed to me that they did not really believe that we have any reliable knowledge of historic man. But this was often curiously combined with a conviction that we knew a great deal about Prehistoric Man: doubtless because Prehistoric Man is labelled "Science" (which is reliable) whereas Napoleon or Julius Caesar is labelled as "History" (which is not.”
C.S. Lewis

“Cuando vosotros [La Octava Fuerza Aérea] destruís una fábrica de cazas, les lleva a los alemanes seis semanas reconstruirla. Cuando yo mato a un obrero les lleva veintiún años reemplazarlo.”
Sir Arthur Harris

“[Kenneth Wilfrid Young Fison] joined the RAF as a radio observer in December 1941. At the time of joining he recorded in his diary the words of Edmund Burke: ‘When Bad Men combine, the good must associate; else will they fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.”
David Ross, Richard Hillary: The Definitive Biography of a Battle of Britain Fighter Pilot and Author of The Last Enemy