Terrorist Attacks Quotes - Page 3

• The end of suffering happens in this very moment, whether you're watching a terrorist attack or doing the dishes. And compassion begins at home. Because I don't believe my thoughts, sadness can't exist. That's how I can go to the depths of anyone's suffering, if they invite me, and take them by the hand and walk them out of it into the sunlight of reality. I've taken that walk myself.

  Byron Katie

  Believe, Taken, Sadness

  "Compassion: The Less You Suffer, the Kinder You Naturally Become" by Byron Katie, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 20, 2015.

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• If the culprits are Muslim, they have twisted the teachings of Islam. Whoever performed, or is behind, the terrorist attacks in the United States of America does not represent Islam. God is not behind assassins.

  Muhammad Ali

  Powerful, Teaching, America

  Muhammad Ali, Hana Yasmeen Ali (2013). “The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey”, p.188, Simon and Schuster

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• The terrorist attacks of September 11th and the courageous actions of our armed forces in Afghanistan and Iraq remind us that friends of tyranny and enemies of freedom still exist

  Carl Levin

  Iraq, September 11, Enemy

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• Whether they did or didn't, America was certainly safe between 2000 and 2008. I don't remember any terrorist attacks on American soil during that period of time.

  Eric Bolling

  America, Safe, Soil

  "Obama's Debt Threats: Reality or Scare Tactic?". "The Five", www.foxnews.com. July 13, 2011.

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• The wort terrorist attack in American history also brought out the best in our country...We are United as Americans.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Powerful, American History

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• I know people who support Hamas but they never got involved in terrorist attacks, for example... They follow Hamas because they love God and they think that Hamas represents God. They don't have knowledge, they don't know the real God and they never studied Christianity. But Hamas, as representative for Islam, it's a big problem.

  Mosab Hassan Yousef

  Real, Thinking, People

  "Son of Hamas Leader Turns Back on Islam and Embraces Christianity". Interview with Jonathan Hunt, www.foxnews.com. August 12, 2008.

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• Some people in the west have responded to the terrorist attacks by trying to look for everything that is positive in Islam. I think that was a strong response after 9/11, was to try to reach out as positively as possible.

  Mark Durie

  Strong, Thinking, People

  "Fear of Islam". SBS Insight, www.sbs.com.au. November 2, 2010.

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• Heaven forbid we've got a problem where we could have prevented a terrorist attack or apprehended someone who is engaged in dangerous activity, but we didn't do so simply because of inaction in the Senate.

  Barack Obama

  Heaven, Problem, Dangerous

  "With A Midnight Deadline, The Senate Meets To Resolve Patriot Act Issues". "All Things Considered" with Karen Grigsby Bates, www.npr.org. May 31, 2015.

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• If the American people had known the truth - that Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and other top administration officials knew that the Benghazi attack was an al-Qaida terrorist attack from the get-go - and yet lied and covered this fact up - Mitt Romney might very well be president. These documents also point to connection between the collapse in Libya and the ISIS war - and confirm that the U.S. knew remarkable details about the transfer of arms from Benghazi to Syrian jihadists.

  Tom Fitton

  War, Isis, People

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• The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, as well as more recent attacks in Madrid, Spain, and London, England, showed in a very tragic way just how vulnerable many areas of the world are to these sorts of actions.

  Jo Bonner

  September 11, Spain, World

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• The evil genius of terrorism is that that maximizes unfamiliarity, imaginability, suffering, scale of destruction, unfairness. It's really important to understand why terrorism is so frightening because it is a psychological war and until you understand it and try to reduce the dread, until then you become like a force multiplier for the terrorists inadvertently because you'll tend to overreact to terrorist attacks because the dread factor is so high.

  Amanda Ripley

  War, Evil, Suffering

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• By preventing new conflicts, we avert the causes of radicalization and the risk of terrorist attacks in Europe, including in Germany.

  Wolfgang Schauble

  Europe, Risk, Germany

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• In some parts of the world, what you are doing is already apparent.According to the World Health Organization, the warming of the planet caused an additional 140,000 deaths in 2004, as compared with the number of deaths there would have been had average global temperatures remained as they were during the period 1961 to 1990. This means that climate change is already causing, every week, as many deaths as occured in the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.

  Peter Singer

  Mean, Average, Organization

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• Public service announcement: In case of a terrorist attack, bottled water and duct tape are not going to do a damn thing. So do what Homeland Security Dir. Tom Ridge does: Get really drunk, and pick up a hooker.

  David Letterman

  Water, Drunk, Doe

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• Despite fearful rhetoric to the contrary, terrorism is not a transcendent threat. A terrorist attack cannot possibly destroy our country's way of life; it's only our reaction to that attack that can do that kind of damage.

  Bruce Schneier

  Country, Way, Damage

  Bruce Schneier (2014). “Bruce Schneier on Trust Set”, p.471, John Wiley & Sons

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• This is no time to be precious about locating the exact individuals directly involved in this particular terrorist attack.... We know who the homicidal maniacs are. They are the ones cheering and dancing right now. We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity.

  Ann Coulter

  Country, Cheer, Dancing

  "This is war". townhall.com. September 14, 2001.

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• The reality is that terrorists can attack any time at any minute, 24 hours a day, using a variety of techniques, in any place at all. And it's not possible to defend in every place, against every technique, against every conceivable approach. It means that you can't stop every terrorist attack. Innocent men, women and children are going to be killed if terrorists are determined to do it.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Children, Mean, Reality

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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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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• When government misleads the country about a terrorist attack, that erodes trust.

  Paul Ryan

  Country, Government, Erode

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The majority of terrorist attacks that have been disrupted in the United States have been disrupted due to things like the Time Square bomber, who was caught by a hotdog vendor, not a mass surveillance program, not a cyber-espionage campaign.

  Edward Snowden

  Squares, Majority, United States

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• More Americans die in gun homicides and suicides in six months than have died in the last 25 years in every terrorist attack and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq combined.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Suicide, War, Gun

  "Do We Have the Courage to Stop This?" by Nicholas D. Kristof, www.nytimes.com. December 15, 2012.

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• More warnings issued by all branches of the government today that another terrorist attack is imminent. We're not sure when, we're not sure where, just that it is coming. Who is attacking us now, the cable company?

  Jay Leno

  Government, Attacking Us, Warning

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• We are in a code orange. Homeland Security said earlier today that everyone should have a roll of duct tape and plastic sheeting to protect your house in event of terrorist attacks. Who came up with this idea? MacGyver?

  Jay Leno

  Should Have, Ideas, Orange

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• There was never a recorded Iraqi terrorists in the last 20 years in any terrorist attack. There were no terrorists in Iraq until we invaded it.

  Jodie Evans

  Years, Iraq, Lasts

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• Politics is a dynamic process. When I was a young man in the 1970s, Yasser Arafat had just perpetrated various terrorist attacks. Just a few years later, after I had entered European Parliament, the same Yasser Arafat was given the Nobel Peace Prize.

  Martin Schulz

  Men, Years, Nobel Peace Prize

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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