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Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich. -- Peter Ustinov
Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it. -- Noam Chomsky
Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death. -- Adolf Hitler
Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face. -- Jacques Chirac
Bathtub falls and police officers kill more Americans than terrorism, yet we've been asked to sacrifice our most sacred rights for fear of falling victim to it. -- Edward Snowden
Protecting Americans from nuclear terrorism rises above politics. -- Lee H. Hamilton
Terrorism will spill over if you don't speak up. -- Malala Yousafzai
In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years. -- Sam Kinison
Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism. -- Noam Chomsky
Terrorism is a significant threat to peace and security, prosperity and people. -- Ban Ki-moon
How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism? -- Howard Zinn
The threat of nuclear terrorism is growing faster than our ability to prevent an attack on our homeland. -- Joe Lieberman
For the first time, preventing nuclear proliferation and nuclear terrorism is now at the top of America's nuclear agenda. -- Barack Obama
We first fought... in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change. -- Serj Tankian
Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival. -- Winston Churchill
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
The number of people killed by the sanctions in Iraq is greater than the total number of people killed by all weapons of mass destruction in all of history. -- Noam Chomsky
The terrible thing about terrorism is that ultimately it destroys those who practice it. Slowly but surely, as they try to extinguish life in others, the light within them dies. -- Terry Waite
The greatest threat to U.S. and global security is no longer a nuclear exchange between nations, but nuclear terrorism by violent extremists and nuclear proliferation to an increasing number of states. -- Barack Obama
But Canada remains a crucial partner in this global war on terrorism, and we are grateful for that. Canadian naval vessels, aircraft and military personnel continue anti-terrorist operations in the Persian Gulf. -- Paul Cellucci
We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism. -- Madeleine Albright
The object of terrorism is terrorism. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture is torture. The object of murder is murder. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me? -- George Orwell
The greatest threat now is a 9/11 occurring with a group of terrorists armed not with airline tickets and box cutters, but with a nuclear weapon in the middle of one of our own cities...there's a high probability of such an attempt. -- Dick Cheney
We will stand up for our friends in the world. And one of the most important friends is the State of Israel. My administration will be steadfast in support Israel against terrorism and violence, and in seeking the peace for which all Israelis pray. -- George W. Bush
A terrorist, massive, casualty-producing event [will occur] somewhere in the Western world - it may be in the United States of America - that causes our population to question our own Constitution and to begin to militarize our country in order to avoid a repeat of another mass, casualty-producing event. -- Tommy Franks
Terrorism gets people's attention. -- Lowell Bergman
Terrorism has no nationality or religion. -- Vladimir Putin
Terrorism is contempt for human dignity. -- Kjell Magne Bondevik
Terrorism against our nation will not stand. -- George W. Bush
Terrorism is actually a very expensive business. -- Loretta Napoleoni
Terrorism is the symptom, not the disease. -- Arundhati Roy
Terrorism is not new to black people. -- Vernon Jordan
Israel was born out of Jewish Terrorism -- Gerald Kaufman
Fascism is fascism. Terrorism is terrorism. Oppression is oppression. -- Harry Belafonte
Terrorism is you winning hearts and minds of people. -- Imran Khan
Terrorism itself is not the greatest danger we face, -- Robert Reich
Terrorism': the word that means nothing, yet justifies everything. -- Glenn Greenwald
Terrorism is the preferred weapon of weak and evil men. -- Ronald Reagan
Terrorism is global and can come from even remote countries. -- Narendra Modi
Terrorism is always one bad day away from being issue No. 1. -- John Avlon
Terrorism is a principal preoccupation in most of our international contacts. -- Shashi Tharoor
Terrorism is just a whole other level of anger management issues. -- Thisuri Wanniarachchi
Terrorism emanates from weakness, not strength. It is the sign of despair. -- Tariq Ali
Violence is not the answer. Terrorism is the most dangerous of answers. -- Elie Wiesel
Terrorism is a crime against the mind. We win by refusing fear. -- Bruce Schneier
Terrorism is partly linked to people who have no jobs in Pakistan. -- Mian Muhammad Mansha
Terrorism is simply the weapon by which the weak engage the strong. -- Ted Koppel
It's not only America. Terrorism now is a threat to the whole world. -- Elie Wiesel
Terrorism fuels itself from all kinds of illicit trafficking: drugs, weapons, human beings. -- Francois Hollande
Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint. -- Christopher Hitchens
Terrorism is everywhere. You think of the tribal terrorism of some African countries. -- Pope Francis
Terrorism is one of the cardinal sins that the Koran threatens with hellfire. -- Fethullah Gulen
It is what it is. It, meaning terrorism. Terrorism is what it is, -- Gretchen Carlson
Terrorism and deception are weapons not of the strong, but of the weak. -- Mahatma Gandhi
You cannot win a War on Terrorism. It's like having a war on jealousy. -- David Cross
Terrorism is a horrible thing that is the great threat to civilization on our planet. -- Walter Isaacson
Terrorism really flourishes in areas of poverty, despair and hopelessness, where people see no future -- Colin Powell
Terrorism works better as a tactic for dictatorships, or for would-be dictators, than for revolutionaries . -- Christopher Hitchens
We must pass a national energy policy to continue our successes in the War on Terrorism. -- Zack Wamp
We must pass a national energy policy to continue our successes in the War on Terrorism. -- Zack Wamp
Terrorism: deadly violence against humans and other living things, usually conducted by government against its own people. -- Edward Abbey
Terrorism will never cease in a country where the so-called leaders are criminals and terrorists in disguise. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
Terrorism can go anywhere where there is not strong government, or government that cannot control its hinterlands. -- Robert D. Kaplan
Terrorism is about magnifying one mediagenic act of violence into one hundred billion acts of terrorized authoritarian idiocy. -- Cory Doctorow
Terrorism, War & Bankruptcy are caused by the privatization of money, issued as a debt and compounded by interest. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
In essence, Clinton's Anti-Terrorism Act would set up a national police force, over the long-dead bodies of the founders. -- Gore Vidal
Terrorism is like jujitsu: The small players win if they make the large player use his strength against himself. -- Joseph Nye
The atmosphere is different in Congress after September 11. Terrorism is no longer an abstract issue, but a real, tangible threat. -- Howard Berman
Terrorism gravely threatens international peace and security, and as a solution, the power and apparent finality of force are seductive. -- Charles Kennedy
Terrorism brings the reprisal; the reprisal brings the additional hatred; the additional hatred breeds the additional terrorism, and so on. -- Tony Blair
Saudi hijackers first came into contact with al-Qaeda and went through Terrorism 101 when they signed up for the jihad in Afghanistan. -- Thomas Friedman
"Terrorism" is a metaphor, it's an abstract noun. It's like having a war on dandruff. It's something from advertising, it's meaningless. -- Gore Vidal
Terrorism is the price of empire. If you do not wish to pay the price, you must give up the empire. -- Pat Buchanan
Terrorism exploded after the Camp David talks broke down in 2000 because the Palestinians' leader at the time, Yasser Arafat, supported it. -- Elliott Abrams
Terrorism is nothing new. Lots of terrorist attacks are nothing new, but we pay a lot more attention to them today. -- Daniel Byman
Terrorism is escalating to the point that Americans soon may have to choose between civil liberties and more intrusive means of protection. -- William S. Cohen
Terrorism should be seen in the light of the country's security and not from the narrow perspective of caste, creed and religion. -- Oscar Fernandes
Terrorism is a psychological warfare. Terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society. -- Patrick J. Kennedy
Terrorism is escalating to the point that Americans soon may have to choose between civil liberties and more intrusive means of protection. -- William S. Cohen
Terrorism is the intentional use of, or threat to use violence against civilians or against civilian targets, in order to attain political aims. -- Boaz Ganor
War is terrorism ... Terrorism is the willingness to kill large numbers of people for some presumably good cause. That's what terrorists are about. -- Howard Zinn
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
Ukraine has been a strong partner to the United States on international initiatives and a committed ally in fighting the War on Terrorism. -- Vito Fossella
Terrorism, to me, is the use of terror for political purpose, and terror is indiscriminate murder of civilians to make a political point. -- Al Franken
Terrorism and war have something in common. They both involve the killing of innocent people to achieve what the killers believe is a good end. -- Howard Zinn
Terrorism and trade cannot be the only issues on which the world unites. We must commit ourselves to a global coalition to deal with exclusion, too. -- Noreena Hertz
A democratic and stable Iraq and Afghanistan are essential to our broader efforts to make no place safe for terrorists and to win the War on Terrorism. -- Ben Nelson
"Terrorism" is what we call the violence of the weak, and we condemn it; "war" is what we call the violence of the strong, and we glorify it. -- Sydney J. Harris
The war against terrorism is terrorism. -- Woody Harrelson
Terrorism and negotiations simply don't go together. -- Moshe Arens
Before 9/11, absolutely, there were concerns about terrorism; but the world fundamentally changed. -- Richard Fadden
If we destroy human rights and rule of law in the response to terrorism, they have won. -- Joichi Ito
In a sense, terrorism blossomed in the advent of television. Television promotes terrorism in religion and in politics. -- Marilyn Manson
The war in Iraq has as much to do with terrorism as the administration has to do with compassion. -- Julian Bond
Human rights are not only violated by terrorism, repression or assassination, but also by unfair economic structures that creates huge inequalities. -- Pope Francis
While the vast majority of hackers may be disinclined towards violence, it would only take a few to turn cyber terrorism into reality. -- Dorothy E. Denning
I distracted myself from the fear and terrorism by thinking about things like how the universe began and whether time travel is possible. -- Malala Yousafzai
The next few months are critical to Pakistan's future direction as a democratic state committed to promoting peace, fighting terrorism and working for social justice. -- Benazir Bhutto
Much has been accomplished during the last year in the campaign against terrorism. This struggle will require vigilance, perseverance and sacrifice for many years to come. -- Paul Cellucci
The fight against international terrorism isn't just a fight against a bunch of misguided extremists; it is a fight to defend the values that we hold dear. -- Vikas Swarup
I seek to lead a democratic Pakistan which is free from the yoke of military dictatorship and that will cease to be a haven, the very petri dish of international terrorism. -- Benazir Bhutto
In many parts of the world, especially Pakistan and Afghanistan, terrorism, war and conflict stop children to go to their schools. We are really tired of these wars. Women and children are suffering. -- Malala Yousafzai
To win the war on terror, we must know who our friends are and where our enemies are hiding. We can't continue fighting terrorism using the same foreign policy blueprints that were in place before September 11th. -- Evan Bayh
I am politically incorrect, that's true. Political correctness to me is just intellectual terrorism. I find that really scary, and I won't be intimidated into changing my mind. Everyone isn't going to love you all the time. -- Mel Gibson
Of course, the overwhelming majority of Muslims are not terrorists or sympathetic to terrorists. Equating all Muslims with terrorism is stupid and wrong. But acknowledging that there is a link between Islam and terror is appropriate and necessary. -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
America's veterans and troops serving abroad today fought hard to preserve our red, white and blue, from the Revolutionary War to today's Global War Against Terrorism, and Congress' action today is appropriate for one of our most sacred symbols. -- Bill Shuster
We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America's chickens are coming home to roost. -- Jeremiah Wright
The attacks in Jordan, just like those before it in Indonesia, Egypt, Spain and the United States, demonstrate that terrorism does not discriminate by race, ethnicity or region. Instead, terrorists indiscriminately target those seeking to live a peaceful, loving and free life. -- Allyson Schwartz
It does surprise me that intelligent people in the 21st century could claim that if you respond to the terrorists with force, you spawn terrorism, but if you appease them, you somehow tame them. This argument, as I said, is very interesting, and very surprising. -- Meles Zenawi
The war we are fighting today against terrorism is a multifaceted fight. We have to use every tool in our toolkit to wage this war - diplomacy, finance, intelligence, law enforcement, and of course, military power - and we are developing new tools as we go along. -- Richard Armitage
Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way. It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence to the highest existing tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and received a verdict - which, of course, the U.S. dismissed with contempt. -- Noam Chomsky
Empire breeds terrorism. -- Pat Buchanan
Nothing, nothing justifies terrorism. -- Mahmoud Darwish
Nothing, nothing justifies terrorism, -- Mahmoud Darwish
Tentacles of terrorism spread everywhere -- John Major
Every statute for terrorism requires violence. -- Bernard von NotHaus
Colonialism is the mother of terrorism. -- Suzy Kassem
Ecoterrorism is terrorism against the environment. -- Paul Watson
You're always going to have terrorism. -- Abdallah II

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