Terrorism Quotes - Page 18

• The U.S. Bill of Rights is being steadily eroded, with two million telephone calls tapped, 30 million workers under electronic surveillance, and, says the author, countless Americans harassed by a government that wages spurious wars against drugs and terrorism.

  Gore Vidal

  War, Rights, Government

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• There is no possible negotiation with these killers. Our aim is to win over terrorism. Only by being firm we can stop terrorism. We must be firm fighting the terrorists and opposing the final aims they want to achieve.

  Jose Maria Aznar

  Fighting, Winning, Finals

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• WHAT IF we all treat other people as we wish to be treated? MORE happiness. LESS selfishness, crime, fraud, hatred, terrorism, wars.

  Phil Harding

  Friendship, Relationship, Family

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• The PLO and the Palestinian people adhere to the renouncement of violence and rejection and condemning of terrorism in all its forms, especially State terrorism, and adhere to all agreements signed between the Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel.

  Mahmoud Abbas

  Israel, Agreement, Organization

  Abbas UN speech: Annotated extracts, www.bbc.com. September 23, 2011.

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• The atmosphere is different in Congress after September 11. Terrorism is no longer an abstract issue, but a real, tangible threat.

  Howard Berman

  Real, Issues, Atmosphere

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• And it is essential that in fighting terrorism, sacrifices should not be made on democracy.

  Bulent Ecevit

  Fighting, Sacrifice, Aquariums

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• Islam is against killing, terrorism, and murder. People who commit these acts in the name of Islam are wrong. And if I had a chance I would do something about it.

  Muhammad Ali

  Names, People, Islam

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• The evil of predatory global capitalism and empire has spawned the evil of terrorism

  Chris Hedges

  Evil, Empires, Capitalism

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

  Christopher Hitchens

  Would Be, Tactics, Revolutionary

  "Murder was their only motive" by Christopher Hitchens, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2001.

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• The religious fanatic who practices terrorism cannot be reasoned with, because there is nothing you can threaten him with, and no alternative you can offer him that is more palatable than his genuine belief that if he dies fighting you, he will be greatly rewarded in afterlife. Only swift and extreme force can stop him.

  Massad Ayoob

  Religious, Fighting, Practice

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• The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.

  Ed Markey

  War, Engagement, Torture

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• All thinking people oppose terrorism both domestic & international but one should not be used to cover the other

  Amiri Baraka

  Thinking, People, Used

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• Education is the best weapon through which we can fight poverty, ignorance and terrorism.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Ignorance, Fighting, Weapons

  "Malala Yousafzai shows support for Nigerian girls abducted by Boko Haram" by Monica Mark, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2014.

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• With the danger of terrorism and war spreading in the world, now is the right moment to stop and reconsider our actions and do everything possible to bring an end to the fighting, be it in your own homeland, neighboring countries, or in your region.

  Dalia Grybauskaite

  Country, War, Fighting

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• I certainly don't advocate terrorism as a way of progressing and understanding people, nor do I believe labeling everything as a terrorist act is helpful either.

  Hugo Weaving

  Believe, People, Understanding

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• The definition of terrorism is killing civilians with the intent of changing their political affiliation.

  Caleb Carr

  Political, Definitions, Politics

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• No one made a decision to militarize the police in America. The change has come slowly, the result of a generation of politicians and public officials fanning and exploiting public fears by declaring war on abstractions like crime, drug use, and terrorism. The resulting policies have made those war metaphors increasingly real.

  Radley Balko

  Real, War, Drug Use

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• Terrorism is an evil that threatens all the countries in Europe. Vigorous cooperation in the European Union and worldwide is crucial in order to meet this evil head on.

  Jan Peter Balkenende

  Country, Order, Europe

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• America has the power, but not the will to fight terrorism. The terrorists have the will, but not the power to fight America, but all that could change with time.

  Isser Harel

  Fighting, America, Israel

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• Israel has no better friend than America. And America has no better friend than Israel. We stand together to defend democracy. We stand together to advance peace. We stand together to fight terrorism.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Fighting, Israel, America

  Benjamin Netanyahu's Address to joint meeting of the U.S. Congress, May 24, 2011.

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• September 2001. A sunny day in New York. Many of us who are writers were at work on the transformation of life into a poem, story, a chapter of a novel, when terror pounced from the sky, and the world made witness to it.

  Nadine Gordimer

  New York, Writing, Sky

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• We need to call what is happening out of Washington, D.C., what it is: Bureaucratic terrorism: If you want a list of stories, I could go through a bunch of them, and I could highlight a few: One of them was the IRS audit of my good friend Phil Hart, he's sitting in the audience today. That was bureaucratic terrorism.

  Matt Shea

  Inspiring, Good Friend, Insightful

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• It isn't poverty that breeds terrorism, but terrorism that breeds poverty.

  Dan Gillerman

  Israel, Poverty

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• Why are people saying it's too soon? Like the people on that flight, we need to agree about what to do about terrorism. And I think we need to have that conversation now.

  Paul Greengrass

  Thinking, Talking, People

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• Barack Obama says that we need to be humble toward terrorism. Yet he is the one we have been waiting for. That is humble?

  Evan Sayet

  Humble, Usa, Waiting

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