Terrorism Quotes - Page 2

• Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death.

  Adolf Hitler

  People, History, Political

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

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• Terrorism is in good part an effective government propaganda; it serves to deflect attention from governmental abuse toward a mostly imagined, highly dangerous outside enemy.

  Mark Poster

  Government, Abuse, Enemy

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• I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.

  George W. Bush

  People, World, Conservative

  Bullhorn Address to Ground Zero Rescue Workers, delivered 14 September 2001, NYC, New York

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• Extreme poverty is the best breeding ground on earth for disease, political instability, and terrorism.

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Political, Earth, Disease

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• How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism?

  Howard Zinn

  War, Terrorist, Terror

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• Americans are at war with radical Islamic terrorism. We are at war with the ISIS caliphate, and what we need is a commander-in-chief who knows that, who understands that, who will give our military the resources they need to make that fight, pull our allies together - including moderate Arab nations - and hunt down and destroy ISIS and other terrorist organizations at their source.

  Mike Pence

  Military, War, Islamic

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The purpose of terrorism lies not just in the violent act itself. It is in producing terror. It sets out to inflame, to divide, to produce consequences which they then use to justify further terror.

  Tony Blair

  Lying, Violent Acts, Purpose

  Tony Blair's Speech opening the Commons debate on Iraq, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2003.

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• Palestinian terrorism has to be rejected and condemned, yes. But it should not be translated defacto into a policy of support for a really increasingly brutal repression, colonial settlements and a new wall.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Wall, Support, Should

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• We shall continue to work for a Middle East that is free of strife and violence, living in harmony without the threat of terrorism or the dangers of weapons of mass destruction.

  Hosni Mubarak

  Easter, Mass Destruction, Weapons

  "Mubarak: Arabs to Fight 'Scourge of Terrorism'". Joint News Conference with President Bush, edition.cnn.com. June 03, 2003.

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• It has always been my view that terrorism is not spawned by the poverty of money; it is spawned by the poverty of dignity. Humiliation is the most underestimated force in international relations and in human relations. It is when people or nations are humiliated that they really lash out and engage in extreme violence.

  Thomas Friedman

  Views, People, Poverty

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• Surely no issue unites us more than our appreciation for our military personnel who are bringing aid to devastated countries, defending us against terrorism, and fighting to make a free election possible in Iraq.

  Christine Gregoire

  Country, Appreciation, Military

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• I think we have to face the reality that in a society where there is a legitimate threat of terrorism, not being able to see one's face, not being able to have some sense of communication in that way, is for many societies a challenge.

  Hillary Clinton

  Communication, Reality, Thinking

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• The United States has an absolute duty to attack terrorism where it lives and breeds, in order to prevent future attacks on American citizens around the world. The American people stand united in the face of terrorism. The men and women who undertook this mission deserve our praise and prayers.

  Dick Armey

  Prayer, Men, Order

  "A Quick Look At Reactions In Congress". www.cnn.com. August 20, 1998.

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• Ours is an age in which thousands are driven daily from their homelands by the unforgiving brutalities of war, terrorism, political oppression, starvation, disease, economic piracy, and the relentless suffocation of that singular breath which makes human beings individuals.

  Aberjhani

  War, Political, Humanity

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• When we use the word domestic [terrorism], we discount its actual impact as political terrorism, which is, of course, political violence meant to impact an audience outside of the immediate victims.

  Malcolm Wrightson Nance

  Impact, Political, Use

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face.

  Jacques Chirac

  War, Borders, Politics

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.

  Peter Ustinov

  Peace, Money, War

  "Achtung! Vorurteile". Book by Peter Ustinov, February 10, 2003.

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• Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life.

  Jacques Chirac

  Hands, Long, Age

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

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• Let's make two things clear: Isil is not "Islamic." No religion condones the killing of innocents, and the vast majority of Isil's victims have been Muslim. And Isil is certainly not a state.

  Barack Obama

  Islamic, Safe Haven, Two

  "Is It ISIS or ISIL? That Depends On Who You're Asking". "All Things Considered" with Arun Rath, wskgnews.org. September 14, 2014.

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• Fascism is fascism. Terrorism is terrorism. Oppression is oppression.

  Harry Belafonte

  Oppression, Fascism

  "Belafonte Blasts 'Gestapo' Security". www.foxnews.com. January 23, 2006.

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• The near-term attacks ... will either rival or exceed the 9/11 attacks... And it's pretty clear that the nation's capital and New York city would be on any list.

  Tom Ridge

  New York, Cities, Would Be

  "'A Second 9/11': An Integral Part of US Military Doctrine" by Michel Chossudovsky, www.globalresearch.ca. October 31, 2008.

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• Terrorism is a state of mind that on the one hand has to do with ignorance and, on the other hand, can be attributed to a feeling of desperation over the political situation, which at some point takes the form of revenge.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Revenge, Ignorance, Hands

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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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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• 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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• 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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