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Quotes About Terrorism

Did business with Qatar, a US ally which protects al-Qaeda.
~ Rudy Giuliani
We wonder, what if we got rid of cash? After all, cash is what keeps terrorists, drug dealers and gun dealers in business.
~ Unknown
Terrorism is actually a very expensive business.
~ Loretta Napoleoni
Both terrorism and insurance sell fear -- and business is business
~ Unknown
I am so sick of reading about another car bomb, another suicide bomber, another 10, 20, 30, 70, 100 people dead in a day, both Americans and Iraqis.
~ Rosanne Cash
I was enraged by these heinous acts of barbarism - enraged that people who called themselves Muslims could launch an unprovoked attack on Christians or foreigners, enraged that through their vile acts these terrorists were perverting our faith, which tells us that Christians are among the people of the Book, that we should show discernment when fighting for the cause of God and not fight those who have not harmed us, that murder and suicide are grievous sins.
~ Pervez Musharraf
The most deadly jihadist attacks in the United States since 9/11, and the most threatening plots, have been carried out by or instigated by Americans.
~ Peter Bergen
since 9/11 the FBI has instigated more jihadist terrorist "plots" in the States than al-Qaeda or any of its affiliated groups—thirty versus ten. Undercover
~ Peter Bergen
Only the government could have made a 'terrorist' out of Mr. Cromitie, whose buffoonery is positively Shakespearean in scope….I believe beyond a shadow of a doubt that there would have been no crime here except the government instigated it, planned it and brought it to fruition." Nonetheless
~ Peter Bergen
In fact, the poor are generally too busy making ends meet to be the vanguard of any revolution. History shows that terrorism is a largely bourgeois endeavor, from the Russian anarchists of the late nineteenth century to the German Marxists of the Baader-Meinhof Gang of the 1970s, to the apocalyptic Japanese terror cult Aum Shinrikyo of the 1990s. Islamist terrorists, it turns out, are no different.
~ Peter Bergen
counterterrorism was not the necessary means to fight terrorism; rather, it was the reverse: the incidence of terrorism was necessary to install a counterterrorist order, impose a state of emergency, and suspend the rule of law.
~ Unknown
Bin Laden was eager to memorialize the 9/11 attacks with another spectacular one. He told his deputies that killing President Barack Obama was a high priority, but he also had General David Petraeus, the then-commander in Afghanistan, in his sights. Bin Laden told his team not to bother with plots against Vice President Joe Biden, whom he considered "totally unprepared" for the post of president.
~ Unknown
Climate change is already causing, every week, as many deaths as occurred in the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.
~ Peter Singer
Everything is destined to reappear as simulation. Landscapes as photography, woman as the sexual scenario, thoughts as writing, terrorism as fashion and the media, events as television. Things seem only to exist by virtue of this strange destiny. You wonder whether the world itself isn't just here to serve as advertising copy in some other world.' Jean Baudrillard
~ Philip K. Dick
In the terrorist case, the inequivalence can be shown by proving the compatibility within the system of the following two propositions: (a) Yesterday it was possible for there to be an explosion. (b) It is not possible today that there was an explosion yesterday
~ David Foster Wallace
What if we chose to regard the 2,973 innocents killed in the terrorist attacks of 9/11 as heroes and martyrs, 'sacrifices on the altar of freedom'?
~ David Foster Wallace
Prévenir le terrorisme, et non pas attraper le terroriste une fois qu'il a commis l'acte, est sans aucun doute la tâche la plus difficile de toute contre-insurrection.
~ Unknown
À la fin de 1955, les pieds-noirs étaient également las des continuelles attaques terroristes du FLN que du manque de fermeté du gouvernement français. 37 civils français, dont dix enfants, avaient été sauvagement massacrés à El Halia
~ Unknown
In fact, however, Kathy Boudin and her comrades were deliberately building an anti-personnel bomb filled with nails, intending to detonate it at a social dance at Fort Dix. The dance would be attended by 18-year-old draftees and their dates.
~ David Horowitz
Palestinians" is a generic term used to refer to Arabs who occupied the land of Palestine prior to 1948 and who were displaced when Israel was made a nation. Palestinians resent that displacement; they want their land back, and they want Israel to be erased from the map. They want Jews either to be killed or to leave their land and live elsewhere in the world. Acts of terrorism are their ongoing effort to attack Israel's right to exist.
~ David Jeremiah
September 12, 2001 Paris Last night on TV I watched people jump from the windows of the World Trade Center.
~ David Sedaris
ISIL is not your parents' al Qaeda. It's a very different model.
~ James Comey
Before 9/11, al-Qaeda was an organization of global reach.
~ Peter Bergen
ISIS is at war with America, but America is not at war with ISIS - not the president, nor the Congress, and certainly not the American people.
~ Jack Keane