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Quotes About Terror

I haven't had a single moment of terror since they told me [I was dying]. My only regret is to die four pages too soon. If I can finish, then I'm quite happy to go.
~ Dennis Potter
Death is the mother of beauty," said Henry. "And what is beauty?" "Terror.
~ Donna Tartt
Death in the horror movies is when the monsters get you.
~ Stephen King, Danse Macabre
In the hysterical technocracy of modern music, sorrow is sent to the back of the class where it sits, pissing its pants in mortal terror.
~ Nick Cave
You can't ever win the war on crime, or the war on terror. You can't repeal human nature.
~ Robert Harris
These fallen heroes represent the character of a nation who has a long history of patriotism and honor - and a nation who has fought many battles to keep our country free from threats of terror.
~ Michael N. Castle
We'll fight terror like there's no peace, and make peace like there's no terror.
~ Yitzhak Rabin
Peace is not the product of terror or fear.
~ Oscar Romero
Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.
~ Lewis Mumford
You can't talk about peace nor agreement while terror is used as the main argument.
~ Alberto Fujimori
We will stand mighty for peace and freedom and maintain a strong defense against terror and destruction. Our children will sleep free from the threat of nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons.
~ William J. Clinton
Peace is nothing more than the regulation of the psycho-political economy of awe and reverential fear, of using the threat of terror in order to bind citizens to the circuit of their subjection.
~ Simon Critchley
Blessed is the covenant of love, the covenant of mercy, useless light behind the terror, deathless song in the house of night.
~ Leonard Cohen, Book of Mercy
The central premise behind Oslo was that if Arafat were given enough legitimacy, territory, weapons and money, he would use his power to fight terror and make peace with Israel.
~ Natan Sharansky
The one means that wins the easiest victory over reason is terror and force.
~ Adolf Hitler
Where love stops, power begins, and violence, and terror.
~ Carl Jung
The glory of God is not that of a despotic tyrant, but the splendour of love before which we fall not in abject terror but lost in wonder, love and praise.
~ William Barclay
Cruelty has a human heart,And Jealousy a human face;Terror, the human form divine,And Secrecy, the human dress.
~ William Blake
The night can sweat with terror as beforeWe pieced our thoughts into philosophy,And planned to bring the world under a rule,Who are but weasels fighting in a hole.
~ William Butler Yeats
For the left, the terror had been cruel necessity, made inevitable by the determination of the enemies of liberty and the rights of man to strangle them at birth. For the right, the Revolution had been violent from the start in its commitment to destroying respect and reverence for order and religion.
~ William Doyle
more terrifying now that he had been
~ William H. Lovejoy
Real terror – the genuine belief that your life is about to end violently – erases everything but itself from the brain.
~ David Benioff
all imperial arrangements do, ultimately, rest on terror.
~ David Graeber
en asuntos de religión los hombres encuentran placer en ser aterrorizados y que no hay predicadores más populares que los que excitan la mayor tristeza y las pasiones más tétricas.
~ David Hume