Quotes About Terror

The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.

All civilizations at some time have fallen into this total terror, when the mystery of life was a kind of panic only to be assuaged by the spilling of blood.

So I think that our foreign policy, the president's strong and principled leadership when it comes to the war against terror and foreign policy is going to be an asset.

People say, 'How can I help on this war against terror? How can I fight evil?' You can do so by mentoring a child; by going into a shut-in's house and say I love you.

It may well be that we shall by a process of sublime irony have reached a state in this story where safety will be the sturdy child of terror, and survival the twin brother of annihilation.

The Palestinians are a despotic, undemocratic grouping which promotes a religious war against Israel, a democracy, through terror.

This is not about charity, it's about justice... The war against terror is bound up in the war against poverty - I didn't say that, Colin Powell said that . . .

Funny, for all surveillance, Osama bin Laden is still free—and we're not. Guess who's winning the "war on terror?

We have now reached a turning point in the struggle between freedom and terror.

The disagreeable reality for those who believe in human rights is that there are some occasions-and Iraq may be one of them-when war is the only real remedy for regimes that live by terror.

All the horrors of the reign of terror were based on concern for public tranquility.

War is food and drink and disease and patience and anger and hate and cold and stealth and terror as well as sweet silver and bitter iron and the glitter of arms in the sun or under the moon.

For years, the Bush Administration eviscerated all the military and legal structures that were designed to separate the innocent from the guilty in the 'Global War on Terror.'

The questions you framed are unanswerable, and to be terrified by that is a sign not of weakness but of strength. A weak person wouldn't have opened his mind to such terror.

There comes a stage at which a man would rather die cleanly by a bullet than by the unknown terror of the phantom in the forest.

Once the fear took hold, I was fucked. I'd never known anything like it could exist: all-consuming, ravenous, a whirling black vortex that sucked me under so completely and mercilessly that it truly felt like I was being devoured alive, bones splintered, marrow sucked.

You've faced horrors in these past weeks... I don't know which is worse. The terror you feel the first time you witness such things, or the numbness that comes after it starts to become ordinary.

De qué tenéis miedo?– pero ellas no contestaron y se limitaron a mirarla furtivamente, y Aspasia comprendió que temían darle un nombre a su terror, no fuera a acudir como ante una llamada.

unspeakable horrors loom all around me, scenes not of physical violence but of psychic mutilation. Mental agony and orgasm. Terror and hysterical laughter.

Any horror element is as much psychological as special effects.

I think, specifically with the horror genre, you have to make it very believable because it can come across ridiculous.

Spiders - the way they move freaks me out. It's so malevolent.

Real-life things, like spiders and snakes, that doesn't scare me, but if it's a monster or a ghost or an alien, that will always scare me.

Spiders keep me awake at night. If I see one that's too big to get under a glass, there will be big problems. I'll spend the rest of the day feeling like I'm being terrorised by this missing spider.