T Quotes
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“Terrorism is an immediate problem that people are very concerned about, and I am as concerned about that as anyone else. But it isn't an either or situation.”
“Terrorism is based on two major pillars: One is injustice, and the other is a certainty of attitude, the notion that their version of the story is the correct one.”
“Terrorism is born of fundamentalism not of religion.”
Source: Illusion of Religion: A Treatise on Religious Fundamentalism
“Terrorism is carried out purposefully, in a cold-blooded, calculated fashion. The declared goals of the terrorist may change from place to place. He supposedly fights to remedy wrongs -- social, religious, national, racial. But for all these problems his only solution is the demolition of the whole structure of society. No partial solution, not even the total redressing of the grievance he complains of, will satisfy him -- until our social system is destroyed or delivered into his hands.”
“Terrorism is contempt for human dignity.”
“Terrorism is escalating to the point that Americans soon may have to choose between civil liberties and more intrusive means of protection.”
“Terrorism is everywhere. You think of the tribal terrorism of some African countries.”
“Terrorism is fueled by hate. The tragedy is that there are countless young children who are being taught to hate. Terrorism is usually fueled also by poverty.”
“Terrorism is global and can come from even remote countries.”
“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.”
“terrorism is interesting to a novelist because it's a crime that's driven by an idea, as opposed to some kind of base materialist impulse. It's not like stealing from someone's house, or even assassinating someone. There are very complex ideological reasons behind these almost abstract acts of violence.”
“Terrorism is like jujitsu: The small players win if they make the large player use his strength against himself.”
“Terrorism is not a limited threat, it is a world wide operation. Today, many countries in the east, and in the west, in the north, and in the south, have been the targets of the nefarious designs of terrorists.”
“Terrorism is not a matter that can be left to law enforcement, with its deliberative process, built-in delays, and safeguards that may let the prisoner go free on procedural grounds.”
“Terrorism is not a policy of any religion.
Terrorism is a policy of weapon's business and politics”
Source: "Zaki's Gift Of Love"
“Terrorism is not an expression of rage. Terrorism is a political weapon. Remove a government's facade of infallibility, and you remove it's people's faith.”
Source: Angels & Demons Special Illustrated Edition: A Novel
“Terrorism is not an ideology of any religion; it is a business policy of weapon-selling countries like America,israel and france.”
Source: "Zaki's Gift Of Love"
“Terrorism is not new to black people.”
“Terrorism is nothing new. Lots of terrorist attacks are nothing new, but we pay a lot more attention to them today.”
“Terrorism is obviously on everybody's mind. The other day my son says to me, 'Daddy, how come the bad men hate us?' How sad is that? I actually got tears in my eyes - because he's 18. What kind of a moron am I raising?”
“Terrorism is one of the cardinal sins that the Koran threatens with hellfire.”
“Terrorism is partly linked to people who have no jobs in Pakistan.”
“Terrorism is really the only existential threat to America as we know it - as a free country that plays a leading role in the world.”
“Terrorism is shrinking:
-map of peace
-map of unity
-map of nations”
“Terrorism is simply the weapon by which the weak engage the strong.”
“Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death.”
“Terrorism is the intentional use of, or threat to use violence against civilians or against civilian targets, in order to attain political aims.”
“Terrorism is the preferred weapon of weak and evil men.”
“Terrorism is the price of empire. If you do not wish to pay the price, you must give up the empire.”
“Terrorism is the symptom, not the disease.”
Source: The End of Imagination
“Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.”
Source: Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left
“Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.”
“Terrorism is usually fueled by poverty, and the fanatical faith of the terrorists who truly believe that the more people they kill who do not subscribe to their faith, the greater their reward in heaven.”
“Terrorism is you winning hearts and minds of people.”
“Terrorism isn't a crime against people or property. It's a crime against our minds, using the death of innocents and destruction of property to make us fearful. Terrorists use the media to magnify their actions and further spread fear. And when we react out of fear, when we change our policy to make our country less open, the terrorists succeed -- even if their attacks fail. But when we refuse to be terrorized, when we're indomitable in the face of terror, the terrorists fail -- even if their attacks succeed.”
“Terrorism isn't insanity. It grows out of social conditions that are well known: poverty, social oppression, dictatorship, and a void of meaning in the lives of ordinary people.”
“Terrorism itself is not the greatest danger we face.”
“Terrorism kills far fewer people than cigarettes, or alcohol, or car accidents. But we don't see ourselves restructuring society and lives in order to make those threats go away.”
“Terrorism must be outlawed by all civilized nations not explained or rationalized, but fought and eradicated. Nothing can, nothing will justify the murder of innocent people and helpless children.”
Source: From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences
“Terrorism needs to be fought against and certainly delegitimized or attacked, but some of the underlying grievances that might in fact lead individuals astray to terrorism cannot be ignored.”
“Terrorism really doesn't strike at physical structures as much as it strikes at ideas, and its main fear is ideas. And cartoonists are particularly effective at distilling ideas.”
“Terrorism really flourishes in areas of poverty, despair and hopelessness, where people see no future”
“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.”
“Terrorism threat is serious, and not just to American interests. The assaults in Russia against two airliners, bringing them out of the sky, and against a subway station, and then that horrible scene at the school in Beslan. This kind of terrorist activity no one is immune from it. And so it suggests that we have to do even more together to make sure the civilized worlds join together in the war against terrorism.”
“Terrorism thrives on a free society. The terrorist uses the feelings in a free society to sap the will of civilization to resist. If the terrorist succeeds, he has won and the whole of free society has lost.”
Source: The collected speeches of Margaret Thatcher
“Terrorism thrives on administrative violence and injustice; that is the only atmosphere in which it can thrive and grow. It sometimes follows the example of indiscriminate violence from above; it sometimes, though very rarely, sets it from below. But the power above which follows the example from below is on the way to committing suicide.”
Source: Karmayogin
“Terrorism, war crime, these are not ethical classification, these are political classification, and when the power flips, so does the classification.”
Source: Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth
“Terrorism was like heroin – once a lonely, desperate soul was hooked on it, he or she became a fanatic – radicalized they call it – ready to die for a paradise in heaven that didn’t exist by helping to rain down a hell on earth for all who didn’t believe in it.”
Source: Unwanted
“Terrorism works better as a tactic for dictatorships, or for would-be dictators, than for revolutionaries .”
“Terrorism': the word that means nothing, yet justifies everything.”