Terrorism Quotes - Page 35

• It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

  Eric Hoffer

  Fear, Power, Formidable

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

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• The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Freedom, Democracies Have, Democracy

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.27, Rajpal & Sons

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• Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them. There is almost no kind of outrage-torture, imprisonment without trial, assassination, the bombing of civilians-which does not change its moral color when it is committed by 'our' side. The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.

  George Orwell

  Color, Atrocities Committed, Tyrants

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• You see what power is holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them.

  Amy Tan

  Power, Hands, Catchy

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Kitchen God's Wife”, p.356, Penguin

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• I think we're creating a situation that's incredibly dangerous. There's a lot of chat at the moment about the war on terror and whilst there are many causes for acts of terrorism, what kind of society are you creating if you allow civil society in Africa to die and create millions upon millions of orphans? Where are they going to go? What kind of cults, what kind of militias, what's going to happen? The accession of violence in those countries, the possibility of that, to me is very terrifying.

  Emma Thompson

  Country, War, Thinking

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• We've always had to worry about the electrical grid and nuclear facilities, and they remain a concern; but cyber-terrorism, you know, which is a word that you hear more and more, I think is a reality.

  Peter Facinelli

  Reality, Thinking, Worry

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• We need not throw away 200 years of American jurisprudence while we fight terrorism. We need not choose between our most deeply held values, and keeping this nation safe.

  Barack Obama

  Fighting, Years, Needs

  'Countdown with Keith Olbermann', www.nbcnews.com. June 19, 2008.

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• Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance.

  Hendrik Willem van Loon

  Failure, Ignorance, Thinking

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• War is a lie. War is a racket. War is hell. War is waste. War is a crime. War is terrorism. War is not the answer.

  Coleen Rowley

  War, Lying, Answers

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• ...The Bill of Rights is a literal and absolute document. The First Amendment doesn't say you have a right to speak out unless the government has a 'compelling interest' in censoring the Internet. The Second Amendment doesn't say you have the right to keep and bear arms until some madman plants a bomb. The Fourth Amendment doesn't say you have the right to be secure from search and seizure unless some FBI agent thinks you fit the profile of a terrorist. The government has no right to interfere with any of these freedoms under any circumstances.

  Harry Browne

  Thinking, Fbi Agents, Rights

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• What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.

  Mario Puzo

  Real, Stupid, Thinking

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• The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgement but a terror-ridden refusal to be hooked into the, if you will, ecological chain of breathing, growing, and dying. It is the demand, in other words, to remain children.

  Midge Decter

  Children, Breathing, Hatred

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• I held a conference in Harvard where Americans said they didn't believe in risk. They thought it was just European hysteria. Then the terrorist attacks happened and there was a complete conversion. Suddenly terrorism was the central risk.

  Ulrich Beck

  Believe, Hysteria, Risk

  "Risky business". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2006.

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• But it then very soon became clear that the response of a war against terrorism, initially conceived of in a metaphorical sense, began to be taken increasingly seriously and came to entail waging a real war.

  Ulrich Beck

  Real, War, Taken

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• In the first instance, therefore, global terrorism created a kind of global community sharing a common fate, something we had previously considered impossible.

  Ulrich Beck

  Fate, Insomnia, Community

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• They know the importance of their mission and of America's commitment to combating and defeating terrorism abroad, and they know that they are making a real difference in bringing freedom to a part of the world that has known only tyranny.

  John Boehner

  Real, Commitment, Differences

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• My own view of this, by the way, is, if the war on terrorism is successful over time, in its own way it's going to box Saddam in in a way that's going to make it much more difficult for him to maintain his power, and that he's going to become increasingly isolated. I think that's going to take time.

  Lawrence Eagleburger

  War, Successful, Thinking

  "Transcript: Lawrence Eagleburger on FNS". Interview With Brit Hume, www.foxnews.com. August 19, 2002.

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• I believe that sooner or later we're going to have to deal with Saddam Hussein, because of his general reputation, because of what I'm convinced he's done with regard to terrorism and the support thereof. But I'm not at all sure I believe that it has to be right now.

  Lawrence Eagleburger

  Believe, Support, Done

  "Transcript: Lawrence Eagleburger on FNS". Interview With Brit Hume, www.foxnews.com. August 19, 2002.

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• War on terrorism defines the central preoccupation of the United States in the world today, and it does reflect in my view a rather narrow and extremist vision of foreign policy of the world's first superpower, of a great democracy, with genuinely idealistic traditions.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  War, Views, Vision

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• I'm as frustrated with the French, I think, as anyone, but look, there's going to be other challenges and there are going to be other issues. As long as there's a war on terrorism going on, we're all going to have to work together.

  John McCain

  War, Thinking, Issues

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• I consider Bush's decision to call for a war against terrorism a serious mistake. He is elevating these criminals to the status of war enemies, and one cannot lead a war against a network if the term war is to retain any definite meaning.

  Jurgen Habermas

  War, Mistake, Decision

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• Historically, terrorism falls in a category different from crimes that concern a criminal court judge.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Fall, Court Judges, Judging

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• The clever, albeit fragile, coalition against terrorism brought together by the U.S. government might be able to advance the transition from classical international law to a cosmopolitan order.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Clever, Government, Order

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• The uncertainty of the danger belongs to the essence of terrorism.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Essence, Transcendentalism, Danger

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• Terrorism is not new to black people.

  Vernon Jordan

  People, Black, Black People

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