Terrorism Quotes - Page 23

• We should pass the U.N.'s Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism. At least it will clearly establish whom you view as a terrorist and whom you don't. We need to delink terrorism from religion - to isolate terrorists who use this interchange of arguments between terrorism and religion.

  Narendra Modi

  Views, Needs, Use

  "Exclusive Interview With Narendra Modi: 'We Are Natural Allies'". Interview with Nancy Gibbs, Zoher Abdoolcarim, Nikhil Kumar, time.com. May 7, 2015.

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• If you view terrorism in Syria from one perspective and terrorism outside Syria from another perspective, it can create problems. If you view terrorism in categories such as good terrorism and bad terrorism, that too can create its own challenges.I think we should not look at these questions individually.

  Narendra Modi

  Thinking, Views, Perspective

  "Exclusive Interview With Narendra Modi: 'We Are Natural Allies'". Interview with Nancy Gibbs, Zoher Abdoolcarim, Nikhil Kumar, time.com. May 7, 2015.

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• Technically speaking, since our complex societies are highly susceptible to interferences and accidents,they certainly offer ideal opportunities for a prompt disruption of normal activities. These disruptions can, with minimum expense, have considerably destructive consequences. Global terrorism is extreme both in its lack of realistic goals and in its cynical exploitation of the vulnerability of complex systems.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Opportunity, Goal, Cynical

  "Philosophy in a Time of Terror". Book by Giovanna Borradori, Jacques Derrida, Jürgen Habermas, 2003.

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• I will stand against those who see terrorism when Americans die, but who see suicide bombers who kill Israelis and believe that that is just part of the negotiating process.

  Alan Keyes

  Suicide, Believe, Bombers

  Alan Keyes' Speech at Israel's Independence Day Festival in Los Angeles, California, www.keyesarchives.com. April 21, 2002.

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• A callous disregard for the claims of innocent human life is the heart and soul of the evil of terrorism.

  Alan Keyes

  Heart, Evil, Soul

  Alan Keyes' Speech at Thanksgiving Point in Lehi, Utah, www.keyesarchives.com. September 24, 2002.

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• The term anarchism has become associated with two phenomena with which real anarchist don't want to associate themselves with. One is violence, and the other is disorder or chaos. The popular conception of anarchism is on the one hand bomb-throwing and terrorism, and on the other hand no rules, no regulations, no discipline, everybody does what they want, confusion, etc. That is why there is a reluctance to use the term anarchism.

  Howard Zinn

  Real, Hands, Two

  "Rebels Against Tyranny". Interview with Ziga Vodovnik, www.counterpunch.org. May 12, 2008.

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• Political leaders still think things can be done through force, but that cannot solve terrorism. Backwardness is the breeding ground of terror, and that is what we have to fight.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Fighting, Thinking, Leader

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Does Hollywood do movies about terrorism? Yeah. And why do they do that? Because it sells.

  Faran Tahir

  Hollywood, Doe, Yeah

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• While I agree that homegrown terrorism and the jihadist threat deserve continuing attention, a single-minded approach ignores all other threats.

  Bennie Thompson

  Attention, Threat, Continuing

  "Terrorists are not just Muslims" by Bennie Thompson, www.politico.com. January 27, 2011.

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• There's a terrible sense of dread filtering across America at the moment and it's not simply because of the continuing fear of terrorism and the fact that the nation is at war. It's more frightening than that. It grows out of the suspicion that we all may be passengers in a vehicle that has made a radically wrong turn and is barreling along a dark road, with its headlights off and with someone behind the wheel who may not know how to drive.

  Bob Herbert

  War, Dark, America

  Bob Herbert (2007). “Promises Betrayed: Waking Up from the American Dream”, p.275, Macmillan

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• The world is threatened by terrorism and violent extremism like never before. The rule of law is one of our chief defences against terrorism. Our shared values of freedom and democracy are shielded when like-minded nations work together to promote justice.

  Peter MacKay

  Law, Justice, Democracy

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• There was a clarity to the Nineties. It was pre-9/11, before that anxiety kicked in that exists right now about the financial crisis or terrorism. We were all just going to move forward into the millennium and everything was always going to get better. Then, whoops, that didn't happen.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Moving, Anxiety, Get Better

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• Like crime, terrorism is a fact of life. I grew up in Israel, where every unattended bag was a suspected bomb; when my family moved for a few years, it was to London in the early years of the Troubles.

  Yochai Benkler

  Israel, Years, Facts

  "Manning and Snowden light path for the US to return to its better self" by Yochai Benkler, www.theguardian.com. July 26, 2013.

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• Air travel survived decades of terrorism, including attacks which resulted in the deaths of everyone on the plane. It survived 9/11. It'll survive the next successful attack. The only real worry is that we'll scare ourselves into making air travel so onerous that we won't fly anymore.

  Bruce Schneier

  Real, Successful, Air

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• I believe that work can be done on security; in combating terrorism in Mexico we have done our part in this area. But at the same time, the world must continue working.

  Vicente Fox

  Believe, Mexico, Done

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• I think the forms of terrorism are becoming very diverse, amongst them cyber-terrorism, for example.

  Yoshihiko Noda

  Thinking, Example, Becoming

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• An invaluable little book.... What Makes a Terrorist uses standard tools of economics and statistical analysis to get at the truth about terrorism.... Krueger finds one familiar fact in all his numbers. Countries with fewer civil liberties tend to produce more terrorists.

  Daniel Finkelstein

  Country, Book, Numbers

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• I dont support terrorism and never have. As a Sri Lankan that fled war and bombings, my music is the voice of the civilian refugee.

  M.I.A.

  War, Voice, Support

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• I grew up in the South [USA states] under segregation. I know what terrorism feels like - when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn't look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. That's terrorism, too.

  Alice Walker

  Father, Taken, Night

  Source: foreignpolicy.com

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• Terrorism is an example of that extreme madness. People blow themselves up just to kill others. Unconscious reaction to terrorism is equal madness.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Blow, People, Example

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• What is needed [to combat terrorism], in my view, is resolve, not retreat; courage, not concession. Rather than thinking in terms of an exit strategy, focus on a strategy for success.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Thinking, Views, Focus

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The number of Americans killed since 9/11 by terrorism, it's less than 100. If you look at the number that have been killed by gun violence, it's in the tens of thousands. And for us not to be able to resolve that issue has been something that is distressing.

  Barack Obama

  Gun, Numbers, Issues

  Interview with Jon Sopel, www.bbc.com. July 24, 2015.

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• We're going to find out who did this and we're going after the bastards. [referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon]

  Orrin Hatch

  Fear, September 11, World

  "Witnesses and leaders on terrorist attacks". www.cnn.com. September 11, 2001.

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• It's frustrating; terrorism is rare and largely ineffectual, yet we regularly magnify the effects of both their successes and failures by terrorizing ourselves.

  Bruce Schneier

  Success And Failure, Frustrating, Effects

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• Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg apparently called President Obama directly to complain about NSA and how it spies on ordinary Americans. That's right, the guy who runs Facebook got mad at the NSA for spying on people. Talk about the pot unfriending the kettle!

  Jimmy Fallon

  Leadership, Running, Zuckerberg

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