Terror Quotes - Page 32

• Jacqueline Carey has created a postmodern fable of enormous scope and force. Santa Olivia is at once a cautionary tale of people caught in a web of lies and creeping terror, and a love song to the beauty and power of being different. At the novel's heart is the kind of grace Carey is known for: an illumination of the strength that lies hidden inside all of us.

  Eric Van Lustbader

  Song, Lying, Heart

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• Imprisoning philosophy within the professionalizations and specializations of an institutionalized curriculum, after the manner of our contemporary European and North American culture, is arguably a good deal more effective in neutralizing its effects than either religious censorship or political terror

  Alasdair MacIntyre

  Religious, Philosophy, Political

  Alasdair MacIntyre (2007). “Edith Stein: A Philosophical Prologue, 1913-1922”, p.4, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Military confrontation is not a suitable alternative in confronting terror and current security threats.

  Jalal Talabani

  Military, Alternatives, Currents

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• In view of the vast size of the occupied areas in the East the forces available for establishing security in these areas will be sufficient only if all resistance is punished not by legal prosecution of the guilty but by the spreading of such terror by the occupying power as is appropriate to eradicate every inclination to resist among the population. The competent commanders must find the means of keeping order not by demanding more security forces but by applying suitable Draconian methods.

  Alfred Jodl

  Mean, Views, Order

  "The Nuremberg Trial and International Law". Book by George Ginsburgs, p. 163 (July 23, 1941 order issued to the German Arm), 1990.

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• Toward the end of the Cold War, capitalism created a military horror: the neutron bomb, a weapon that destroys life while leaving buildings intact. During the Fourth World War, however, a new wonder has been discovered: the financial bomb. Unlike those dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, this new bomb not only destroys the polis (here, the nation), imposing death, terror, and misery on those who live there, but also transforms its target into just another piece in the puzzle of economic globalization.

  Subcomandante Marcos

  Military, War, Hiroshima And Nagasaki

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• From his style, you’d think Jason Brannon was the dark double of Ray Bradbury. He cares more about character and realism than most writers I’ve read and his plots flow like well-orchestrated music. Indeed, Brannon’s writing has a classical feel, reminiscent of the best traditional work in the genre, even when he’s going for gut-wrenching terror and torture in-extremis.

  Michael Arnzen

  Character, Writing, Dark

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• The whole famous Reign of Terror [of the 1790s] in fifteen months guillotined 2,596 aristos. The Versaillists [the anti-Communards of 1871] executed 20,000 before their firing squads in one week. Do these figures represent the comparative efficiency of guillotine and modern rifle or the comparative cruelty of upper and lower class mobs?

  Guy Endore

  Squad, Class, Rifles

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• No one...can live in this heightened state of reflective receptivity forever. Because this empathy's involuntary, there's terror here. Loss of control, a seepage. Becoming someone else or worse: becoming nothing but the vibratory field between two people.

  Chris Kraus

  Loss, Two, People

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• There is a loveliness to life that does not fade. Even in the terrors of the night, there is a tendency toward grace that does not fail us.

  Robert Goolrick

  Night, Grace, Doe

  Robert Goolrick (2007). “The End of the World As We Know It: Scenes from a Life”, Algonquin Books

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• I’ve been trying to find a way for the terror and the beauty to live together in one song. I know it’s possible.

  Sonny Sharrock

  Song, Trying, Together

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• All civilizations at some time have fallen into this total terror, when the mystery of life was a kind of panic only to be assuaged by the spilling of blood.

  Laurie Lee

  Blood, Civilization, Panic

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• I think the War on Terror is really absurd, especially coming from a country that is founded on terrorism.

  Alice Walker

  Country, War, Thinking

  "Alice Walker: 'Go to the Places That Scare You'". Interview with Valerie Schloredt, www.yesmagazine.org. October 2, 2012.

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• Night after night, through years of performing and directing, I've stood in awe of the audience, of its capacity for response. As if by magic, masks fall away, faces become vulnerable, receptive. Filmgoers do not defend their emotions, rather they open to the storyteller in ways even their lovers never know, welcoming laughter, tears, terror, rage, compassion, passion, love, hate--the ritual often exhausts them.

  Robert McKee

  Laughter, Hate, Fall

  Robert McKee (2010). “Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• Terror is nothing else than justice, prompt, severe, inflexible.

  Maximilien Robespierre

  Justice, Prompts, Severe

  "The Bolshevik Revolution, 1917-1923, Vol. 1". Book by Edward Hallett Carr, p. 154, Speech to the National Convention, (February 5, 1794), 1951.

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• Most terrors are but spectral illusions. Only have the courage of the man who could walk up to his spectre seated in the chair before him, and sit down upon it; the horrid thing will not partake the chair with you.

  Arthur Helps

  Men, Illusion, He Man

  Sir Arthur Helps (1871). “Brevia: Short Essays and Aphorisms”, p.135

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• In his larger forms, Schubert is a wanderer. He likes to move at the edge of the precipice, and does so with the assurance of a sleepwalker. To wander is the Romantic condition; one yields to it enraptured, or is driven and plagued by the terror of finding no escape. More often than not, happiness is but the surface of despair.

  Alfred Brendel

  Moving, Yield, Despair

  Alfred Brendel (2015). “Music, Sense and Nonsense: Collected Essays and Lectures”, p.167, Biteback Publishing

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• Adam Nevill a spine-chiller in the classic tradition, a writer who draws you in from the world of the familiar, eases you into the world of terror, and then locks the door behind you. The House of Small Shadows grows darker and takes on more menacing life with each step forward.

  Michael Koryta

  Doors, House, Shadow

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• I know that I can sing really loud. It's like having that really big Evinrude engine on the back of your fishing boat. But I've been trying to be more dynamic with my voice and not just singing on ten all of time out of terror.

  Neko Case

  Fishing, Voice, Singing

  "Neko Case Surges Forward with 'Flood'". "Morning Edition" with Ashley Kahn, www.npr.org. March 28, 2006.

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• It is the sheer ugliness and banality of everyday life which turns my blood to ice and makes me cringe in terror.

  Jean Lorrain

  Blood, Ice, Everyday

  Jean Lorrain (2002). “Nightmares of an Ether-drinker”

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• Terror collided violently with reason.

  Anita Moorjani

  Reason

  Anita Moorjani (2012). “Dying to be Me: My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing”, p.44, Hay House, Inc

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• Define your times. Treasure your calling. Pray without ceasing. The terrors of the age are less than the grandeur of the Christ within you.

  Calvin Miller

  Age, Calling, Treasure

  Calvin Miller (2011). “Letters to a Young Pastor”, p.8, David C Cook

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• A new fascism promises security from the terror of crime. All that is required is that we take away the criminals' rights - which, of course, are our own. Out of our desperation and fear we begin to feel a sense of security from the new totalitarian state.

  Gerry Spence

  Rights, Tyrants, Promise

  Gerry Spence (1999). “Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century”, p.408, Macmillan

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• 'THIS ROOM HAS MYSTERY LIKE A TRANCE' This room has mystery like a trance Of wine ; forget-me-nots of you Are chair and couch, the books your Fingers touched. And now that you Are absent here the silence scrapes A secret rust from everything; While sudden wreaths of sorrow's Dust uncover emptiness like halls To stumble through, and terror falls

  Kenneth Patchen

  Book, Fall, Wine

  Kenneth Patchen (1968). “The Collected Poems of Kenneth Patchen”, p.112, New Directions Publishing

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• We have a terror of seeming to exert ourselves, lest it be noticed that we exerted ourselves and did not succeed.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Entrepreneur, Succeed, Seeming

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• We know we must win the war on terror to protect innocent people and the freedoms that define our way of life.

  Doc Hastings

  War, Winning, People

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