Terror Quotes - Page 9

• When Britain and the U.S. invaded Iraq, it was with the reasonable expectation that it was going to increase the threat of terror, as it has.

  Noam Chomsky

  Iraq, Expectations, Increase

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• Sooner or later, jihadist-style terror and WMD are going to come together and the consequences could be horrendous.

  Noam Chomsky

  Wmd, Style, Together

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• In the late 1990s, some of the worst terrorist atrocities in the world were what the Turkish government itself called state terror, namely massive atrocities, 80 percent of the arms coming from the United States, millions of refugees, tens of thousands of people killed, hideous repression, that's international terror, and we can go on and on.

  Noam Chomsky

  Government, People, Atrocities

  "CNN Debate on "Terrorism" Chomsky v. Bennett". Debate with Paula Zahn, www.freerepublic.com. May 30, 2002.

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• A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men...

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Business, Men, Littles

  "Gigi". Book by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, 1945.

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• Downplaying their faults is pretty much the point of campaigns. But we do count on them living with the constant terror of public rejection.

  Gail Collins

  Rejection, Campaigns, Faults

  "Political Introspection". Interview with David Brooks, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. April 10, 2013.

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• After having dispatched a meal, I went ashore, and found no habitation save a single house, and that without an occupant; we had no doubt that the people had fled in terror at our approach, as the house was completely furnished.

  Christopher Columbus

  People, House, Doubt

  Christopher Columbus, Bartolomé de las Casas (1827). “Personal Narrative of the First Voyage of Columbus to America: From a Manuscript Recently Discovered in Spain”, p.55

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• Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.

  Joseph Conrad

  Lonely, Memories, Loneliness

  Joseph Conrad (2016). “Under Western Eyes”, p.39, Joseph Conrad

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• American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.

  Katherine Dunn

  War, Long, Romance

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• One side-effect of the so-called war on terror has been a crisis of liberalism. This is not only a question of alarmingly illiberal legislation, but a more general problem of how the liberal state deals with its anti-liberal enemies.

  Terry Eagleton

  War, Enemy, Sides

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• God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Enlightenment, Chaos, Force

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• Dressed in the lion's skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Skins, Lioness, Lions

  "The Fables of La Fontaine: Book V". Book by C. Robertson, 1668.

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• Terrorism, to me, is the use of terror for political purpose, and terror is indiscriminate murder of civilians to make a political point.

  Al Franken

  Political, Purpose, Use

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• In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Rejection, Void, Fantasy

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1973). “The lathe of heaven”

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• The difference between political terror and ordinary crime becomes clear during the change of regimes, in which former terrorists become well-regarded representatives of their country.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Country, Differences, Political

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• You can't ever win the war on crime, or the war on terror. You can't repeal human nature.

  Robert Harris

  War, Winning, Human Nature

  "'A Writer Close to the Power Elite': Interview With Robert Harris". Interview with Christina Patterson, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• Priorities like winning the War on Terror and providing tax relief that will keep our economy growing strong.

  Dennis Hastert

  Strong, War, Winning

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• The road ahead is not easy. Iraq is currently the center of the war on terror.

  Doc Hastings

  War, Iraq, Easy

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• I am confident that in the end freedom and democracy will prevail over terror and tyranny. We will win this war on terror - and when we do Americans, the British, Iraqis, and people around the world will be more secure.

  Doc Hastings

  War, Winning, People

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• To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror.

  Frank Herbert

  Demise, Mortality, Ends

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.141, Penguin

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• Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.

  Adolf Hitler

  Military, War, Enemy

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• Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Self, Sea, Giving

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• The war on terror, if this is a war on terror, can only be won by a sincere regional and international cooperation. All have to believe they have something at stake and work together. In the absence of this it will become political and interest-oriented.

  Hamid Karzai

  War, Believe, Political

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• If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Men, Terrified, Ifs

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• The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam, bombing villages. But how can a civilised nation do this? How can you can eliminate suspects, their wives, their children, their families, their neighbours? How can you justify this?

  Imran Khan

  Children, War, Wife

  "Imran Khan: 'America is destroying Pakistan. We're using our army to kill our own people with their money'". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2011.

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• I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud.

  Stephen King

  Trying, Proud, Emotion

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

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