Terrorism Quotes - Page 34

• We have no control over the outcome of anything. Like the planet and global warming, we don't control that. If politicians want a war we don't control that. Acts of terrorism, we can't control them.

  will.i.am

  War, Want, Outcomes

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

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• From now on, I'm opting for ontological terrorism.

  Grant Morrison

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• The big bankers of the world, who practise the terrorism of money, are more powerful than kings and field marshals, even more than the Pope of Rome himself. They never dirty their hands. They kill no-one: they limit themselves to applauding the show.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Kings, Powerful, Dirty

  "Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor". Book by Paul Farmer, p. 10, 2005.

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• Failure of government programs prompts more determined effort, while the loss of liberty is ignored or rationalized away...whether is it is the war on poverty, drugs, terrorism...or the current Hitler of the day, an appeal to patriotism is used to convince the people that a little sacrifice of liberty, here or there, is a small price to pay...The results, though, are frightening and will soon become even more so.

  Ron Paul

  War, Sacrifice, Loss

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• Funny, for all surveillance, Osama bin Laden is still free—and we're not. Guess who's winning the "war on terror?

  Cory Doctorow

  War, Winning, Surveillance

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• The invasion of Iraq was a bandit act, an act of blatant state terrorism, demonstrating absolute contempt for the concept of international law.

  Harold Pinter

  Law, Iraq, Invasion

  Harold Pinter (2015). “Death etc.”, p.9, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Terrorism and deception are weapons not of the strong, but of the weak.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Strong, Deception

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.134, Vintage

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• Enemies are somewhere else, as the fighting is almost always “over there,” with Islamic fundamentalism now replacing Russian and Chinese communism as the implacable, furtive menace. And “terrorist” is a more flexible word than “communist.” It can unify a larger number of quite different struggles and interests. What this may mean is that the war will be endless---since there will always be some terrorism.

  Susan Sontag

  War, Struggle, Islamic

  Susan Sontag (2007). “At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches”, p.200, Macmillan

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• We are turning into a nation of whimpering slaves to Fear—fear of war, fear of poverty, fear of random terrorism, fear of getting down-sized or fired because of the plunging economy, fear of getting evicted for bad debts or suddenly getting locked up in a military detention camp on vague charges of being a Terrorist sympathizer.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Military, War, Debt

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.215, Pan Macmillan

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• If we try to resolve terrorism with military might and nothing else, then we will be no safer than we were before 9/11. If we truly want a legacy of peace for our children, we need to understand that this is a war that will ultimately be won with books, not with bombs.

  Greg Mortenson

  Children, Military, War

  Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin (2006). “Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time”, p.366, Penguin

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• If rulers refuse to consider poems as crimes, then someone must commit crimes that serve the function of poetry, or texts that possess the resonance of terrorism.

  Hakim Bey

  Crime, Resonance, Function

  Hakim Bey (2003). “T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism”, p.19, Autonomedia

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• The story of terrorism is written by the state and it is therefore highly instructive… compared with terrorism, everything else must be acceptable, or in any case more rational and democratic.

  Guy Debord

  Stories, States, Cases

  Guy Debord (1998). “Comments on the Society of the Spectacle”, p.24, Verso

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• And I said to myself that unless you conceive Death to be a violent guerrilla and kidnaper who snatches those you love, and if you are not cowardly and cannot submit to such terrorism as civilized people now do in every department of life, you must pursue and inquire and explore every possibility and seek everywhere and try everything.

  Saul Bellow

  People, Trying, Possibility

  Saul Bellow (2008). “Humboldt's Gift”, Penguin Classics

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• This is what terrorism is occupied with as well: making real, palpable violence surface in opposition to the invisible violence of security.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Real, Violence, Invisible

  Jean Baudrillard (1994). “Simulacra and Simulation”, p.57, University of Michigan Press

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• Since I speak and write about this a good deal, I am often asked at public meetings, in what sometimes seems to me a rather prurient way, whether I myself or my family have 'ever been threatened' by jihadists. My answer is that yes, I have, and so has everyone else in the audience, if they have paid enough attention to the relevant bin-Ladenist broadcasts to notice the fact.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Writing, Facts, Attention

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume”, p.1497, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• In Muslim societies, a person who has been manipulated unto believing in extremist violence or terrorism often seeks the permission of his mother before he may join a militant jihad and educated women as a rule, tend to withhold their blessings from such things.

  Greg Mortenson

  Mother, Believe, Blessing

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• ‎The greatest danger of a terrorist's bomb is in the explosion of stupidity that it provokes.

  Octave Mirbeau

  Stupidity, Bombs, Danger

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• It's only terrorism if they do it to us. When we do much worse to them, it's not terrorism.

  Noam Chomsky

  Ifs

  Noam Chomsky (2011). “Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda”, p.93, Seven Stories Press

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• And then Jack chopped down what was the world's last beanstalk, adding murder and ecological terrorism to the theft, enticement, and trespass charges already mentioned, and all the giant's children didn't have a daddy anymore. But he got away with it and lived happily ever after, without so much as a guilty twinge about what he had done...which proves that you can be excused for just about anything if you are a hero, because no one asks inconvenient questions.

  Terry Pratchett

  Children, Hero, Daddy

  "Fictional character: Susan". "Terry Pratchett's Hogfather", www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• The rain that fell on the city runs down the dark gutters and empties into the sea without even soaking the ground

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Rain, Dark

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• Terrorism is not an expression of rage. Terrorism is a political weapon. Remove a government's facade of infallibility, and you remove it's people's faith.

  Dan Brown

  Government, Expression, People

  Dan Brown (2006). “Angels & Demons Special Illustrated Edition: A Novel”, p.155, Simon and Schuster

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• Death is only a byproduct of terrorism.

  Dan Brown

  Demon, Angels And Demons, Robert Langdon

  Dan Brown (2009). “Angels & Demons - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.146, Simon and Schuster

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• Just above our terror, the stars painted this story in perfect silver calligraphy. And our souls, too often abused by ignorance, covered our eyes with mercy.

  Aberjhani

  Stars, Eye, Ignorance

  Aberjhani (2000). “I Made My Boy Out of Poetry”, p.84, Bright Skylark Book Products

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• Violence by the defenders will be used by the putschists to justify overwhelming repression which they want to use anyhow. It will be used to CLAIM that the putschists are saving the country from ‪‎terrorism or ‪#civil war‬, and are preserving "‪law‬ and ‪‎order‬

  Gene Sharp

  Country, War, Order

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• read thousands of books and I will power myself with knowledge. Pens and books are the weapons that defeat terrorism.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Book, Weapons, Defeat

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