Oscar Romero
Archbishop, Activist
"Peace is not the product of terror or fear."
Terror quotes
Terror
153 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Carl Jung
Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
"Where love stops, power begins, and violence, and terror"
Karl Marx
Philosopher, Economist
"We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror."
Maya Angelou
Poet, Memoirist
"Leaving behind nights of terror and fear, I rise. Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear, I rise."
David Bowie
Musician, Actor
"There's a terror in knowing what the world is about"
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"Tomorrow the revolution will already 'raise itself with a rattle' and announce with fanfare, to your terror: I was, I am, I will be!"
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"Beauty is only the start of bearable terror."
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"Terror made me cruel."
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"Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind."
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"Science has destroyed even the refuge of the inner life. What was once a sheltering haven has become a place of terror"
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"The war against terror is like a war against dandruff. It's a metaphor. It's not about anything."
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"I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror."
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"Terror of the future can be put out to pasture with psychedelic shamanism."
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"There's no better way to learn something than to learn it in front of an audience. Your terror drives you."
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"That's how children deal with terror, they fall asleep."
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"If you think of something, do it. Plenty of people often think, “I’d like to do this, or that."
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"I am stigmatized by a living death in which real death holds no terrors for me."
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"I was set down from the carrier's cart at the age of three; and there with a sense of bewilderment and terror my life in the village began."
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"Some even claim that I'm a terror, a dictator and they're right."
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"A person could spend most of a lifetime in retrospective terror, thinking of all the things one nearly didn't do."
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"Better to die once and for all, than live in continual terror."
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"Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it."
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"Under conditions of terror, most people will comply but some people will not."
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"It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors."
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"Death is robbed of much of its terror for the true believer."
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