Petra Kelly

I belong to the initiators of the... and we had repeatedly also asked the dismantling of the SS-20 but we did not…

— Petra Kelly

Violent revolutions usually only mean a change of personnel at the top.

— Petra Kelly

A truly free society must not include a peace which oppresses us. We must learn on our own terms what peace and…

— Petra Kelly

We cannot feast on global resources while the world's poor struggle to survive on inhospitable lands. It is as simple as that.…

— Petra Kelly

We are at a point in human evolution when human solidarity on a global scale is absolutely vital for the survival of…

— Petra Kelly

Like the mind-set that places men above women, whites above blacks, and rich above poor, the mentality that places humans above nature…

— Petra Kelly

If there is a future, it will be Green.

— Petra Kelly

Power over must be replaced by shared power, by the power to do things, by the discovery of our own strength as…

— Petra Kelly

The profound political changes we need in order to heal our planet will not come about through fragmented problem solving or intellectual…

— Petra Kelly

The vision I see is not only a movement of direct democracy, of self- and co-determination and non-violence, but a movement in…

— Petra Kelly

I have hope for the world, although it is ten minutes before Doomsday. Women all over the world are rising up and…

— Petra Kelly

Our motto is, 'Be gentle and subversive.'

— Petra Kelly

Practically every violent conflict or social change has proved that violence unleashes violence in return.

— Petra Kelly

Overturning patriarchy does not mean replacing men's dominance with women's dominance. That would merely maintain the patriarchal pattern of dominance. We need…

— Petra Kelly

We, the generation that faces the next century, can add the solemn injunction ''If we don't do the impossible, we shall be…

— Petra Kelly

Peace is not just the absence of mass destruction, but a positive internal and external condition in which people are free so…

— Petra Kelly

The transformation of forests into deserts, fertile earth into sunbaked concrete, and running rivers into silted floodwaters show that only through care…

— Petra Kelly

Uranium is the raw material of a power-elite who has taken Mother Earth's every living creature hostage.

— Petra Kelly

We call upon people everywhere to work for peace, to forget the quiet comfort of their homes, to leave behind their fears…

— Petra Kelly

An industrial system predicated on the delusion of limitless expansion will, in time, consume its own basis of support.

— Petra Kelly

These missiles [Cruise and Pershing II] represent a new generation of missiles whose deployment will help give NATO first-strike capability. With this…

— Petra Kelly

The vision I see is not only a movement of direct democracy, of self- and co-determination and non-violence, but a movement in…

— Petra Kelly

... the state is not absolute, and loyalty to the state cannot be absolute.

— Petra Kelly

Militarism is in direct competition with people's needs for food, health care, and environmental protection.

— Petra Kelly

Time and time again we forget all too easily that nonviolent action embraces a wide and imaginative range of behavior which can…

— Petra Kelly