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Strive for the ideal.

Loesje is an international free speech organisation started in Arnhem (Netherlands) in 1983. Loesje went international in 1989. Its charter is to spread creativity, positive criticism, ideas, philosophical ponderings and thoughts on current events by way of short slogans on posters, signed by a fictional character, Loesje(a Dutch female name).

Quotes

Printable files of these statements can be found by searching by Key-words at the Loesje International Website Poster Archive

1980s (in Dutch)

  • Wacht niet op jezelf knal eruit
    • Loesje.nl, 1983 ; cited Fleur van der Bij, Loesje: De biografie. 2023. p. 91; Also Loesje booktitle, 2017
  • Streef onbekommert naar het ideale
    • 1986 ; Poster presented by Niels van de Griend of the new political party Loesje at May 6, 1986 in The Hague
    • Simple translation of Dutch phrase: Strive for the ideal ; Or more exact: Strive no concerned for the ideal

1990s

1990

First international quotes in september 1990 translated from the Dutch
Cited in: Fleur van der Bij, Loesje: De biografie. 2023. p. 157
  • EVERYTHING CHANGES ALL THE TIME AND THIS WILL ALWAYS BE SO
    • Loesje International, 09.1990
More quotes in the 1990
  • AND ON THE EIGHTH DAY MAN CREATED GOD

More quotes in the 1990s

  • Leven is het meervoud van lef
    • Loesje, 1 september 1991.; Cited in: Fleur van der Bij, Loesje: De biografie. 2023. p. 157
    • Translation by Fleur van der Bij (2023): LIFE MULTIPLIED EQUALS COURAGE
  • Hij die zonder mening is verwijdere de eerste poster
    • Loesje, 1 juni 1998; Cited/shown in: NOS Nieuws, Dinsdag 7 november 2023
    • Plain translation of Dutch phrase: he who is without opinion, remove the first poster
  • Initiatief zoekt nemer (m/v)
    • Booktitle Initiatief zoekt nemer (m/v), Stichting Vrienden van Loesje, 1999. 128 pp
    • Plain translation of Dutch phrase: Initiative searches for taker (man/women)

2010s

Quotes about Loesje

  • Loesje 40 jaar: posters niet meer overal, maar teksten 'in geheugen gegrift'
    • NOS Nieuws, Dinsdag 7 november 2023, 21:07
    • Plain translation of Dutch phrase: Loesje 40 years: posters not everywhere anymore, yet lines are engraved in the collective memory.
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