"There is nothing SOFT TARGETS can assert, or in the name of which they can speak. That is why they bow low before an authority that denies them, even if their way of bowing is far more violent than a shouted assertion."

- Georges Bataille

"SOFT TARGETS refuses to defend itself, and it attacks when all is lost. It sacrifices itself, but it takes revenge. It succumbs in a dazzling scandal."

- Maurice Blanchot

"SOFT TARGETS yields to bourgeois society. But they're brought to their knees with such force that the throne begins to totter.”

- Walter Benjamin

“SOFT TARGETS, this scum of depraved elements from all classes, with headquarters in the big cities, is the worst of all possible allies. This rabble is absolutely venal and absolutely brazen. If the workers, in every revolution, inscribe on the houses: Death to Thieves! Death to SOFT TARGETS! they do so not out of reverence for property, but because they rightly consider it necessary above all to keep that gang at bay.”

- Friedrich Engels

“SOFT TARGETS publishes upheavals, anxieties, deprivation, death, exceptions in the physical and moral order, the spirit of negation, brutishness, hallucinations willfully induced, torture, destruction, sudden reversals of fortune, tears, insatiability, servitude, the forbidden, vulture-like chemical peculiarities which watch over the carrior of some dead illusion, precocious and abortive experiments, bug-like obscurities, the terrible monomania of pride, the inoculation of profound stupors, funeral orations, jealousies, betrayals, tyrannies, impieties, irritations, acrimonies, aggressive outbursts, dementia, spleen, reasoned terrors, strange anxieties which the reader would prefer to be spared, grimaces, neuroses, the bloody screw-plates by which logic is forced to retreat, exaggerations, lack of sincerity, catch-words, platitudes, the somber, the lugubrious, creations worse than murders, extremes perpetually present, reason brought down with impunity and obscenity, mawkishness, all that is somnambulous, shady, nocturnal, somniferous, noctambulous, viscous, the ambiguous, the consumptive, the spasmodic, the anaemic, the one-eyed, hermaphrodite, bastard, albino, pederast, demoralizing syllogisms, excrement, those who do not think with the innocence of a child, desolation, hypocrisy, vague perspectives which crush you in their imperceptible works, spitting on sacred axioms, vermin and their insinuating titillations, decay, impotence, blasphemy, asphyxia, suffocation, fits of rage, which I blush to name. I denounce their cancerous existence.”

- Isidore Ducasse

"When the next war comes, they'll get rich selling rat skins, cocaine, and corrugated iron masks."

- Louis-Ferdinand Céline