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• Terrorism has once again shown it is prepared deliberately to stop at nothing in creating human victims. An end must be put to this. As never before, it is vital to unite forces of the entire world community against terror.

  Vladimir Putin

  Creating, Community, World

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• Terror itself, when once grown transcendental, becomes a kind of courage; as frost sufficiently intense, according to the poet Milton, will burn.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Frost, Kind, Intense

  Thomas Carlyle (1841). “The French Revolution: A History”, p.185

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• The fight against terror is a common imperative for democracies and must become so for all nations.

  Lionel Jospin

  Fighting, Democracy, Common

  " France offers navy support to U.S.", www.cnn.com. October 3, 2001.

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• Leaving behind nights of terror and fear, I rise. Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear, I rise.

  Maya Angelou

  Night, Leaving, Clear

  Maya Angelou (2011). “And Still I Rise: A Book of Poems”, p.47, Random House

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• Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation of virtue; it is less a distinct principle than a natural consequence of the general principle of democracy, applied to the most pressing wants of the country.

  Maximilien Robespierre

  Country, Evil, Justice

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• Heads in the Women's Ward On pillow after pillow lies The wild white hair and staring eyes; Jaws stand open; necks are stretched With every tendon sharply sketched; A bearded mouth talks silently To someone no one else can see. Sixty years ago they smiled At lover, husband, first-born child. Smiles are for youth. For old age come Death's terror and delirium.

  Philip Larkin

  Children, Husband, Lying

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• How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism?

  Howard Zinn

  War, Terrorism, Terrorist

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• Here lies the real terror in the international war of ideologies; that a city knows not whom it entertains.

  Rebecca West

  Real, War, Lying

  Rebecca West (1952). “The meaning of treason”

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• The purpose of terrorism lies not just in the violent act itself. It is in producing terror. It sets out to inflame, to divide, to produce consequences which they then use to justify further terror.

  Tony Blair

  Lying, Violent Acts, Purpose

  Tony Blair's Speech opening the Commons debate on Iraq, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2003.

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• Fairy tales since the beginning of recorded time, and perhaps earlier, have been “a means to conquer the terrors of mankind through metaphor.

  Jack Zipes

  Mean, Fairy Tale, Conquer

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• n Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.

  Orson Welles

  Love, Funny, Life

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The aim is to balance the terror of being alive with the wonder of being alive.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Balance, Alive, Wonder

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• The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.

  Maimonides

  Self Esteem, Decisions You Make, Risk

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• On that terrible day, a nation became a neighborhood. All Americans became New Yorkers.

  George Pataki

  Bad Day, America, Usa

  "Pataki invokes 9/11 in Bush introduction". www.cnn.com. September 3, 2004.

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• They have to die and their houses should be demolished so that they cannot bear any more terrorists . . . are all our enemies and their blood should be on our hands. This also applies to the mothers of the dead terrorists.

  Ayelet Shaked

  Mother, Blood, Hands

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• A true teacher does not terrorize ignorant students, because a true teacher knows that it is his job to cure ignorance.

  Miriam Defensor Santiago

  Education, Teacher, Jobs

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• Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

  Eric Hoffer

  Death, Dying, Tomorrow

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• The true terrorists of our world do not meet at the docks at midnight, or scream "Allahu Akbar" before some violent action. The true terrorists of our world wear 5000 dollar suits and work in the highest positions of finance, government and business.

  Peter Joseph

  Our World, Government, Suits

  "Zeitgeist: Addendum". Documentary, History, War, www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• Flying is hours and hours of boredom sprinkled with a few seconds of sheer terror.

  Pappy Boyington

  Funny, Humorous, Airplane

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• No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

  Oscar Wilde

  Heart, Men, Atheism

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.219, University of Chicago Press

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• Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible. It is then an emanation of virtue.

  Maximilien Robespierre

  Justice, Revolution, Virtue

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• The weapon of the Republic is terror, and virtue is its strength.

  Georg Buchner

  Republic, Weapons, Virtue

  "Danton's Death". Play by Georg Buchner, Act I, 1835.

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• We must smother the internal and external enemies of the Republic or perish with it; now in this situation, the first maxim of your policy ought to be to lead the people by reason and the people's enemies by terror.

  Maximilien Robespierre

  People, Enemy, Firsts

  Speech to the National Convention, February 05, 1794.

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• No divine terror will ever be found in the work of the man who wastes a colossal strength in elaborating toys; for the first lesson that terror is sent to teach us is, the value of the human soul, and the shortness of mortal time.

  John Ruskin

  Men, Soul, Lessons

  John Ruskin (1853). “The Stones of Venice: The fall”, p.144

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• Fear is the most easily taught of all lessons, and the fight against terror, real or imagined, is perhaps the history of man's mind.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Fear, Real, Fighting

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (2015). “Cross Creek”, p.148, Booklassic

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