Quotes About Terror

Seventy years ago this November, Vladimir Lenin created the modern totalitarian state, transforming simpler forms of tyranny into history's most sophisticated apparatus of rule by terror.

Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror.

The men and women on the front lines of the war on terror continue to risk their lives to save ours - and for that we owe them a debt that we can never truly repay. Thanks to their efforts we have made tremendous progress. Yet, the job is not done.

Under no stretch of imagination can war be regarded as an ethical process; yet war, force, terror, and propaganda were the evolutionary means employed to weld the German people into a tribal whole.

In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical rites that savage terror may dictate to the individual.

When you know, you know and it flows in your mind like waves. Coming forward as it pulls with the tide. It brings anxiety, terror, and it's beyond anything plausible.

When you're wearing slasher goggles, everything can look like a slasher.

Horror is not a symptom it's a love affair.

When you're wearing slasher goggles, everything can look like a slasher.

Los franceses fueron los primeros en adoptar la Ilustración inglesa y transformaron brillantemente su propia cultura intelectual, tomándola como base, antes de que los rousseaunianos distorsionaran la Revolución, alejándola de los lockistas, y la convirtieran en el caos del terror.

I recognize terror as the finest emotion… and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find I cannot terrify him/her, I will try to horrify; and if I find I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out.

My father was always suppressing the softer side of my nature; it seemed to have disappeared in the course of those boxing lessons, that's what boxing did to me. My father took away the real me and replaced all what I could have been by imposing his brutal regime of terror upon me.

I've never done a horror movie, like a full-on gore slasher film.

I think that true horror is accomplished by slowly getting into your brain. The old way is much more scary.

I remember one of them - it was a 1941 black Ford. As it went by very slow, a guy leaned out with a shotgun, keeping a bead on us all the time, and we just had to walk slowly and wait for him to kill us... They didn't kill us, but they didn't end it, either.

I have a paralyzing fear of snakes.

The only answer to terror is an excess of democracy.

It is fear that I am most afraid of.

In fact, the terror of the public execution created centres of illegality: on execution days, work stopped, the taverns were full, the authorities were abused, insults or stones were thrown at the executioner, the guards and the soldiers; attempts were made to seize the condemned man, either to save him or to kill him more surely; fights broke out, and there was no better prey for thieves than the curious throng around the scaffold.

On the other hand, the last week had pretty much been one waking nightmare after another; if this kept up, her dreams wouldn't have the power to terrify her.

People who think you can use terror are quite wrong. No, no, terror is useless, whatever its colour – white, red or even brown! Terror completely paralyses the nervous system.

Some totalitarians prefer to conceal themselves behind the machinery of the state, but, like the cannibal who lovingly cradles his victim as he digs around for his heart, Stalin liked conversing with his terrorized children. He was an intimate murderer.

Kebaikan merupakan satu-satunya metode yang memungkinkan untuk menangani makhluk hidup. Keliru jika berpikir teror akan membantunya. Teror itu sepenuhnya melumpuhkan sistem syaraf.

Art must always stand guard against stirring emotions that lie outside the aesthetic: sexual arousal, terror, disgust, shock.