Terrorism Quotes - Page 3

• This is not a battle between the United States of America and terrorism, but between the free and democratic world and terrorism.

  Tony Blair

  America, Battle, United States

  Statement, 11 Sept. 2001

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• Terrorism is the intentional use of, or threat to use violence against civilians or against civilian targets, in order to attain political aims.

  Boaz Ganor

  Order, Political, Target

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• Terrorism is actually a very expensive business.

  Loretta Napoleoni

  Expensive

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• The real debate about both the horrific inequality in the world and about the terrorism and frightening instability in the world requires analysis of the differences in upset-adaption or alienation-from-soul between individuals, races, genders, generations, countries, civilisations and cultures, but until the human condition could be explained and the upset state of the human condition compassionately understood and thus defended that debate could not take place.

  Jeremy Griffith

  Country, Real, Differences

  Jeremy Griffith (2016). “Freedom: The End of the Human Condition”, p.638, WTM Publishing and Communications

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• People who write about issues like poverty or terrorism are a part of the elite, and the distance between the elite and nonelite is growing very fast. You can move around the world but meet only people who speak your language, who share the same ideas, the same beliefs, and in doing so you can lose sight of the fact that the vast majority of the world does not think or believe in or speak the everyday discourse of the elite.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Distance, Believe, Moving

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Our relationship with the United States is not reduced to questions of fighting terrorism and the Iraq war. German-American relations were so good for so many years because they extended deeply into the normal lives of people.

  Angela Merkel

  War, Fighting, Years

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• It goes without saying that the stability of the Middle East is the foundation for peace and prosperity for the world, and of course for Japan. Should we leave terrorism or weapons of mass destruction to spread in this region, the loss imparted upon the international community would be immeasurable.

  Shinzo Abe

  Peace, Loss, Mass Destruction

  "Japan's Abe pledges support for Mideast countries battling IS" by Stephen Kalin, www.reuters.com. January 17, 2015.

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• Extremism and Islam are completely different things, we strongly demand the immediate release of the Japanese citizens unharmed ... The international community needs to respond firmly and cooperate without caving into terrorism.

  Shinzo Abe

  Community, Islam, Different

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• The threat and use of violence is stimulating nuclear proliferation along with jihadi terrorism.

  Noam Chomsky

  Use, Nuclear Proliferation, Violence

  Noam Chomsky (2007). “Interventions”, p.142, City Lights Publishers

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• Hamas retains the right to defend Gaza by the use of the weaponry at its disposal, and is thus not committed to nonviolence, but it does offer the possibility of greater peace and stability for both Israelis and Palestinians if the label of "terrorism" was abandoned and the search for accommodation was commenced in good faith.

  Richard A. Falk

  Doe, Labels, Use

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Terrorism is simply the weapon by which the weak engage the strong.

  Ted Koppel

  Strong, Weapons, Weak

  "Michael McCaul, Barton Gellman, Ted Koppel, Claire McCaskill, Anu Bhagwati, Steve King, Bill Richardson, David Brooks, David Ignatius, Ana Navarro". "Meet the Press", www.nbcnews.com. August 11, 2013.

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• Is real, it is serious, it is growing, and it constitutes one of the greatest threats to our national security and, indeed, to global security.

  John O. Brennan

  Real, Growing, Serious

  "Obama's End Goal: World Without Nuclear Weapons". Interview with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. April 13, 2010.

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• The fact that war is the word we use for almost everything—on terrorism, drugs, even poverty—has certainly helped to desensitize us to its invocation; if we wage wars on everything, how bad can they be?

  Glenn Greenwald

  War, Drug, Use

  Glenn Greenwald (2007). “A Tragic Legacy: How a Good vs. Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency”, p.133, Crown

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• Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

  Douglas Horton

  Fear, Action, Cures

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• We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.

  Madeleine Albright

  Fighting, People, Democracy

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• No one ever said that fighting the war against terrorism and defending our homeland would be easy. So let's support our troops, law enforcement workers, and our mission to keep our nation and our children safe in the days and years to come.

  Judy Biggert

  Children, War, Fighting

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• In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

  Abdul Kalam

  India, Sickness, Crime

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

  Salman Rushdie

  Defeat, Civil Society

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• Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Tactics, Impossible

  Simon Cottee, Thomas Cushman, Christopher Hitchens (2008). “Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left”, p.5252, NYU Press

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• The gravest threat faced by the world is of an extremist group getting hold of nuclear weapons or materials.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Extremist Groups, Nuclear, World

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• The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Artist, Men, Bombs

  "The Man Who Was Thursday". Book by G. K. Chesterton, Ch. I : The Two Poets of Saffron Park, 1908.

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• The war against terrorism is terrorism. The whole thing is just bullshit.

  Woody Harrelson

  War, Positive Energy, Acts Of Terror

  "The cast are votes" by John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2004.

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• I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual reality in a unifying faith far removed from the headlines of violence, destruction and terrorism.

  Cat Stevens

  Spiritual, Reality, Violence

  "Faith and the future" by Yusuf Islam, www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2001.

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• This was not an act of terrorism, but it was an act of war.

  George W. Bush

  War, War On Terrorism

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• If Clinton had only attacked terrorism as much as he attacks George Bush we wouldn't be in this problem.

  Dennis Miller

  Politics, Problem, Clinton

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