Terrorism Quotes

The [Israelis] believed - they were possessed of an absolute certainty and conviction - that 'terror...

Many signs point to the fact that the youth of the Third World will no longer tolerate living in cir...

Invisible violence in Pakistan, violence against brown people, ongoing violence in Iraq — that's got...

Most of the oppression of Muslims in the world right now is carried out by other Muslims.

If terrorism is to be defeated, the world of Islam must take on board the secularist-humanist princi...

Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to ...

Don't let the zealots make Muslim a terrifying

Nobody ever wanted to go to war, but if a war came your way, it might as well be the right war, abou...

The fundamentalist seeks to bring down a great deal more than buildings. Such people are against, to...

How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.

There is no doubt that the United States has much to atone for, both domestically and abroad...To pr...

Ask a deeply religious Christian if he’d rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be...

When a person is humiliated, when his rights are being violated, and he does not have the proper edu...

The whole point of international terrorism is to shock the world with the most horrific spectacle im...

Racism is both overt and covert. It takes two, closely related forms: individual whites acting again...

Every morningI wake up with the newsof bloodshed.I feel my body,desperate to know whetherI’m still a...

[I]t takes so little effort and money to get rid of malaria, to bring in clean water, to give people...

What really alarms me about President Bush's 'War on Terrorism' is the grammar. How do you wage war ...

There is no moral difference between a Stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. They both kill innocent ...

At least in Russia, you cannot just go and tap into someone's phone conversation without a warrant i...

Terrorism has no nationality or religion.

Why does a young Muslim, in the prime of life, with a full life ahead, go and blow himself up in a b...

It was mid-November 2008. There were pirates taking ships with impunity in African waters, terrorist...

Now how does all this relate to Islamic jihad? Islam sees violence as a means of propagating the Mus...

The fault, of course, is not in religion, but in the fanatic of every religion. Fanaticism remains t...

We must fight terrorism as if there's no peace process and work to achieve peace as if there's no te...

Just above our terror, the stars painted this storyin perfect silver calligraphy. And our souls, too...

We are living in an era in which billions of people are grappling to promote communication, toleranc...

Death wins nothing here,gnawing wings that amputate––then spread, lift up, fly.

What can bombs know of the illuminated fields so golden with heaven in your heart’s sacred lands?

There is nothing sane, merciful, heroic, devout, redemptive, wise, holy, loving, peaceful, joyous, r...

If the idea of loving those whom you have been taught to recognize as your enemies is too overwhelmi...

September 11, 2001: Citizens of the U.S., besieged by terror’s sting,rose up, weeping glory, as if o...

On either side of a potentially violent conflict, an opportunity exists to exercise compassion and d...

Diversity is an aspect of human existence that cannot be eradicated by terrorism or war or self-cons...

Peace is not so much a political mandate as it is a shared state of consciousness that remains eleva...

In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers...

In my head this cruel unspeakable truth: that we battled and we cursed and we spilled each other’s b...

Take terrorism, one example among the methods used in that struggle. We know that leftist tradition ...

Where an open war is impossible, oppression can continue quietly behind the scenes. Terrorism. Guerr...

In actual fact our Russian experience—when I use the word "Russian" I always differentiate it from t...

We know who the homicidal maniacs are. They are the ones cheering and dancing right now.

Our love of lockstep is our greatest curse, the source of all that bedevils us. It is the source of ...

And a strange, deadly war is raging around the world. Yet, each person who has lost a loved one sure...

In effect, terrorists now have the power to ignite war. They almost have their finger on the nuclear...

DB: There's a lot of talk about terrorism. In fact, it's become almost an obsession for the media in...

The policies the US government is following are dangerous for its citizens. It's true that you can b...

Terrorism is a significant threat to peace and security, prosperity and people.

When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear p...

And then, on September 11, the world fractured.It's beyond my skill as a writer to capture that day ...

Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.

We are benefiting from one thing, and that is the attacks on the twin towers and the pentagon and th...

If we stopped calling it profiling and started calling it "proactive intelligence screening" or "hig...

McChrystal had organized a jaw-dropping counterterrorism campaign inside Iraq, but the tactical succ...

During an hour-long conversation mid-flight, he laid out his theory of the war. First, Jones said, t...

The august international organizations charged with preserving peace and human dignity in the world—...

America is a place of opportunity. It’s people-friendly! Very much so, compared to the Muslim countr...

Most of the barbaric and vicious acts of terror committed against innocent civilians around the worl...

Throughout history there have been populations that have lived in desperation, and none of them have...

When you don’t stop evil in its tracks when you first recognize it, you will end up with a monster f...

The Declaration of Independence says that ‘all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their...

Americans just don’t realize the viciousness of the militant Islamic fundamentalist.

I think the biggest disservice to the American people was the denial by the networks to air video of...

Just as people asked ‘Why do they hate us?’ after 9/11, one evening I asked my father, ‘Why did they...

America has always prided itself on its multiculturalism and its multireligious communities, just as...

Terrorism isn't a crime against people or property. It's a crime against our minds, using the death ...

what such people miscall their religion, is a vent for their bad humours and arrogance.

The violent subjugation of the Palestinians, Iraqis, and Afghans will only ensure that those who opp...

The Koran is empathetic about the rights of other religions to practice their own beliefs. It unequi...

Question: Which Mediterranean government shares all of Ronald Reagan's views on international terror...

The anti-life of [Jerry Falwell] proves only one thing: that you can get away with the most extraord...

I used to call myself a single-issue voter on the essential question of defending civilization again...

Some readers may have noticed an icy little missive from Noam Chomsky ["Letters," December 3], repud...

Terrorism works better as a tactic for dictatorships, or for would-be dictators, than for revolution...

[T]his is an enemy for life, as well as an enemy of life.

The United States finds itself with forces of reaction. Do I have to demonstrate this? The Taliban's...

I can remember when I was a bit of an ETA fan myself. It was in 1973, when a group of Basque militan...

As to the 'Left' I'll say briefly why this was the finish for me. Here is American society, attacked...

Watching the towers fall in New York, with civilians incinerated on the planes and in the buildings,...

The President is also captured in a well-worn TV news clip, making a boilerplate response to a quest...

Since I speak and write about this a good deal, I am often asked at public meetings, in what sometim...

It can certainly be misleading to take the attributes of a movement, or the anxieties and contradict...

Shrouded as he was for a decade in an apparent cloak of anonymity and obscurity, Osama bin Laden was...

I admire President Chavez for his strength to resist the United States. Instead, Bush is waging a wa...

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

It's our goddamed city! It's our goddamed country. No terrorist can take it from us for so long as w...

I'd never really believed in terrorists before--I mean, I knew that in the abstract there were terro...

What if I got hit by lightning while walking with an umbrella? Ban umbrellas! Fight the menace of li...

Death is only a byproduct of terrorism.

U.S. News Organizations observe the anniversary of September 11 with investigations about the nation...

Muslim religious leaders — from Al-Azhar in Cairo to local imams throughout the world - need to say ...

As of the second decade in the twenty-first century, nearly all acts of terror around the world (as ...

One of the most often asked questions posed after America was attacked on 9/11 was, ‘What has the Un...

As of the second decade in the twenty-first century, nearly all acts of terror around the world (as ...

All plots tend to move deathward. This is the nature of plots. Political plots, terrorist plots, lov...

Only Americans can hurt America.

Let's have some precision in language here: terrorism means deadly violence -- for a political and/o...

Fear has been the original parent of superstition, every new calamity urges trembling mortals to dep...

No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices.

Bathtub falls and police officers kill more Americans than terrorism, yet we've been asked to sacrif...