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Quotes About Terror

I would like to do a horror film with zombies!
~ Liza Soberano
I'd been to a number of war zones before in my life, but I had never been in one as terrifying as Chechnya.
~ Scott Anderson
I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud.
~ Stephen King
Terror works like a musical composition, so many instruments, all in tune, playing perfectly together to create their desired effect. Sorrow and horror and fear.
~ Nancy Gibbs
I know some really outstanding Turkish journalists, and have been pleased and honored to be able to join with them a few times in their courageous protests against state terror and repression.
~ Noam Chomsky
Hamas has effectively kidnapped Gaza. Instead of turning it into the Singapore of the Middle East that was promised, they have turned it into a fortress of terror.
~ Naftali Bennett
The kidnapped person is so tantalizingly close, kept alive by a devastating hope. Kidnapping or hostage-taking is perhaps the most disturbing form of terror because it turns this hope into a liability that can paralyze.
~ Uzodinma Iweala
And one thing we want during this war on terror is for people to feel like their life's moving on, that they're able to make a living and send their kids to college and put more money on the table.
~ George W. Bush
Sirs, I have tested your machine. It adds a new terror to life and makes death a long-felt want.
~ Herbert Beerbohm Tree
Iran wants the money. And I don't believe they want it for roads or hospitals or schools, I believe they want it for more terror.
~ John Barrasso
I hate this place," Tiara whimpered. "It's super creepy. Like a haunted Chuck E. Cheese's where the games all want to kill you and you never get your pizza.
~ Libba Bray
If there ever was a religious war full of terror, it was the Crusades. But you can't blame Christianity because a few adventurers did this.
~ Moustapha Akkad
Dialogue is the only way to end war and terror. We need practical solidarity with those who are weaker and diplomacy from below.
~ Luisa Morgantini
There isn't a war on terror, there is a war of terror.
~ John Pilger
I have come to believe there is nothing in the lives of human beings more terrifying than war and nothing more important than for those of us who have experienced it to share its awful truth.
~ Ron Kovic
September 11 was a godsend for Israel. It could now conjoin its merciless persecution of the Palestinians with Bush's War against Terror. But my impression is that it wasn't altogether successful.
~ Norman Finkelstein
Neither Jewish morality nor Jewish tradition can be used to disallow terror as a means of war.
~ Yitzhak Shamir
I think the War on Terror is really absurd, especially coming from a country that is founded on terrorism.
~ Alice Walker
I tell you I look forward with terror to her [Germany] making war upon us again in ten years.
~ Austen Chamberlain
America today is a confused society, caught up in a terror war, a culture war, and a media war, where honesty and professional standards have vanished.
~ Bill O'Reilly
Acts of terror have never brought down liberal democracies. Acts of parliament have closed a few.
~ William Eldridge Odom
It was true that the ghastly sounds I had heard through the fog had greatly upset me but far worse was what emanated from and surrounded these things and arose to unsteady me, an atmosphere, a force - I do not exactly know what to call it - of evil and uncleanness, of terror and suffering, of malevolence and bitter anger
~ Susan Hill
Sometimes fear of a thing is worse than the thing itself.
~ Susan Meissner
cannot show: that the terror began not in far-off Poland, but in the heart of a city full of clubs and cafés, spaces where you can still buy a lottery ticket or go to the dentist. Each four-inch square recalls an ordinary human being, in the midst of her life, who was deported and murdered with little notice and no protest from the other ordinary human beings who surrounded her every day. The terror was here.
~ Susan Neiman