Quotes About Terror

Second, carceral terror, by implanting fear in the incarcerated, often returns persons broken by fear into their communities. I stressed in the first edition of this book that systems of punitive terror create through brutal prison culture a certain number of predators that often return to the streets, increasing the vulnerabilities of poor neighborhoods.

Nullifying or "neutralizing" the work and effects of such dissidents and organizers of alternative social structures is a third way that carceral state terror protects a system of economic disparity.

More recently, the efforts against police violence that rippled through U.S. communities in 2014 as in the #blacklivesmatter movements are one manifestation of popular resistance against a U.S. state terror's long history.

The police are often the frontline for surveillance, control, and dissemination of terror in poor communities.

liberals—the executed Jesus challenges Christian thinkers to enter the world of the politics of terror at work in Jesus' imperial execution.

Christians who confess that the presence or reign of God was uniquely given, in some mode, with Jesus' presence, are confronted with the need to do a political theology of state terror at the very heart of their Christology and at the heart of their discourse. By

By Christianity's own traditional logic, we are compelled to face and to meditate on a figure who entered into Rome's and Palestine's state-sanctioned theatrics of terror. We

Jesus on the cross is best understood as suffering, again, an imperial execution.[6] When interpreted as that kind of death—a torture-death—the narrated stories of Jesus become ones about vulnerability amidst and challenge to the powers that visit imperial terror on subjugated peoples.

You are afraid all the time, and there are good reasons to fear," is the opening line about life in prison by Columbia University law professor Robert Ferguson in his 2014 book, Inferno.[49] What are the dimensions of this fear, this disseminated terror?

There is, first of all, the way prisons transform the human experience of time. The prison should be seen as a kind of theater in which time is forged into an instrument of torture, producing sustained bouts of fear and panic that make prisons also a weapon of terror. The

Terror thrives on the bottomless pit of imagination, and the imagination comes to life with the passage of time. Time is its vintner, the family its furtile field.

Horror films are very functional like comedies. The main thing with a comedy, the big question is "is it funny?" And with horror the question is "is it scary?"

The shortest horror story:The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.

Terror of the future can be put out to pasture with psychedelic shamanism.

We are terrified by the idea of being terrified.

Our goal in Iraq is victory. Our goal is for a young democracy to be able to sustain itself, govern itself, and defend itself and serve as an ally in the war on terror.

Moon couldn't think of anything reassuring to say. They were trapped inside a leviathan, standing in a tunnel gnawed out by giant parasites. Going blank with terror was a perfectly rational way to react, especially for a groundling.

For through terror He sanctifies those who believe in His name.

But ignorance of the father brought terror and fear, and terror grew dense like a fog, so that no one could see.

From reading over the notes for each session it was apparent that there had been improvement by more or less regular steps from almost complete terror at sight of the rabbit to a completely positive response with no signs of disturbance.

But now all the natural secrets have been exposed, and it is likely that the turtles have been sold to laboratory scientists who want to remove their shells so that they can wire electrodes to the turtles' skin in order to monitor their increasing terror at the loss of their shells.

One frustration with anxiety is that it is often hard to find a reason behind it. There may be no visible threat and yet you can feel utterly terrorized.

Grief is terror, in its most undiluted form.

And when a joke is powerful enough, you don't laugh, you scream. Yes, when the mask slips you scream out loud for all the terror in the world, and I screamed then.