Suicide Bombers Quotes

• I know of no wars started by anyone to impose lack of religion on someone else.

  Simon Hoggart

  Inspirational, Motivational, Atheist

  "Simon Hoggart's week: Ever heard of an agnostic suicide bomber?" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2012.

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• You've got to be pretty hopeless to become a suicide bomber.

  George W. Bush

  Suicide, Bombers, Hopeless

  Source: www.texasmonthly.com

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• There is no moral difference between a stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. Both kill innocent people for political reasons.

  Tony Benn

  Suicide, War, Differences

  "Question Time" (BBC), March 22, 2007.

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• If children were taught to question and think through their beliefs, instead of being taught the superior virtue of faith without question, it is a good bet that there would be no suicide bombers.

  Richard Dawkins

  Suicide, Children, Thinking

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• There's nothing heroic about suicide bombers. They're mostly just dumb, brainwashed kids, stoned out of their minds.

  Marcus Luttrell

  Suicide, Kids, Dumb

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• A large part of the problem, is that young people are being born into the world and growing up without much hope. And so, they become murderers, they become suicide bombers.

  Arthur Hertzberg

  Suicide, Growing Up, People

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• On our watch, the conversation with a would-be suicide bomber will not begin with the words, 'You have the right to remain silent.'

  Mitt Romney

  Suicide, Watches, Would Be

  "The Rachel Maddow Show", www.msnbc.com. February 18, 2010.

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• Many of Islam's apologists insist that suicide bombing is not Islamic because the Koran forbids suicide. Mmm-hmm. So where are all the Muslims gathering in mass demonstrations to vehemently condemn this practice that slanders their religion? Why does contemporary Islam promote 'martyrdom' as the highest duty of Muslims? Why are photographs of suicide bombers plastered everywhere in Beirut? Because Islam is what Islam does.

  Jamie Glazov

  Suicide, Islamic, Practice

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• The suicide bomber who blows up Israeli children cannot transform himself into a martyr. The Palestinian problem is not an Islamic problem.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Suicide, Children, Islamic

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• The suicide bombers who struck London on 7 July 2005 killed 52 innocent people and wounded hundreds more. All of them must live with their memories. And the rest of us will always remember where we were when we heard that London had been hit by the worst terrorist attack in its history.

  Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones

  Suicide, Memories, July

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• I'm very interested in how idealistic young people can get caught up in all sorts of systems of extreme belief, you know, whether it's cults or whether it's suicide bombers.

  Emma Donoghue

  Suicide, People, Bombers

  "Emma Donoghue's New Novel Follows "The Wonder" Of Starvation". Interview with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. September 17, 2016.

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• The suicide bomber's imagination leads him to believe in a brilliant act of heroism, when in fact he is simply blowing himself up pointlessly and taking other people's lives.

  Salman Rushdie

  Suicide, Believe, People

  "Terror Is Glamour". "Spiegel" Interview, www.spiegel.de. August 28, 2006.

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• The atheist suicide bomber is unfaithfully committed to his mission

  Dean Cavanagh

  Suicide, Atheist, Bombers

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• Brian Turner writes as only a soldier can, of terror and compassion, hurt and horror, sympathy and desire. He takes us into the truth and trauma of the Iraq war in language that is precise, delicate and beautiful, even as it tells of a suicide bomber, a skull shattered by a bullet, a blade in a bloodgroove.

  Andrew Himes

  Beautiful, Suicide, Hurt

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• The terrorism of the suicide bomber and the terrorism of aerial bombardment are indeed morally equivalent. To say otherwise (as either side might) is to give one moral superiority over the other, and thus serve to perpetuate the horrors of our time.

  Howard Zinn

  Suicide, Giving, Bombers

  "Letters: On Terror", www.nytimes.com. August 19, 2007.

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• As long as we accept the principle that religious faith must be respected simply because it is religious faith, it is hard to withhold respect from the faith of Osama bin Laden and the suicide bombers

  Richard Dawkins

  Suicide, Religious, Long

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.345, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Officials believe that one of the terrorists was a woman. And there are female suicide bombers. It's just that their reward in paradise is a little different. Instead of getting 72 virgins, they get 72 guys who just listen.

  Bill Maher

  Suicide, Believe, Guy

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• Terror is glamour - not only, but also. I am firmly convinced that there's something like a fascination with death among suicide bombers.

  Salman Rushdie

  Suicide, Fascination, Bombers

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• What the fundamentalists are doing is a total negation of their own faith - encouraging and lionizing suicide bombers and killing women and children, hardly in keeping with the teachings of Prophet Mohammed.

  Alexander Haig

  Suicide, Children, Teaching

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• We have suicide bombers blowing up buses in Israel and very real anti-Semitism on the march in Europe, but the TV networks located the worldwide danger zone for Jews as the space between Mel Gibson's ears.

  L. Brent Bozell III

  Suicide, Real, Israel

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• The soldiers kill suicide bombers. Think about that. When a guys whole thing in life is to kill himself and you get there first... you are halling ass my friends.

  Dennis Miller

  Suicide, Thinking, Things In Life

  "Dennis Miller: All In". Comedy, www.imdb.com. January 21, 2006.

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• I did a study of soldiers returning from Iraq, and their levels of PTSD were much higher if they had had to shoot a woman or child, even if they knew the person was a suicide bomber.

  Mia Bloom

  Suicide, Children, Iraq

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I have long believed that Israel should seek to give up the so-called Occupied Territories in return for security, and that a Palestinian state should be established. I have felt that way all my life. I think it is unreasonable to ask the Israelis to do this in a context where there is no guarantee at all that suicide bombers will be controlled.

  Russ Feingold

  Suicide, Giving Up, Thinking

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. April 30, 2002.

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• The Palestinians are fighting with human suicide bombers, that's all they have. The Israelis... they've got one of the most powerful military machines in the world. The Palestinians have nothing. So who are the terrorists? I would make a case that both sides are involved in terrorism.

  Ted Turner

  Suicide, Powerful, Military

  "Ted's tears". Interview with Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2002.

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• I will stand against those who see terrorism when Americans die, but who see suicide bombers who kill Israelis and believe that that is just part of the negotiating process.

  Alan Keyes

  Suicide, Believe, Bombers

  Alan Keyes' Speech at Israel's Independence Day Festival in Los Angeles, California, www.keyesarchives.com. April 21, 2002.

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