Malala Yousafzai
Activist, Author
"Extremists have shown what frightens them most. A girl with a book."
Terrorism quotes
Terrorism
286 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Malala Yousafzai
Activist, Author
"With guns you can kill terrorists, with education you can kill terrorism."
Theodore Roosevelt
Politician, Author
"There is but one answer to terrorism and it is best delivered with a Winchester rifle."
Barack Obama
Politician
"Our objective is clear: we will degrade, and ultimately destroy, ISIL through a comprehensive and sustained counter-terrorism strategy."
Jean Baudrillard
Philosopher, Sociologist
"Today's terrorism is not the product of a traditional history of anarchism, nihilism, or fanaticism. It is instead the contemporary partner of globalization."
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"The Gulf War is responsible for the huge and horrifying rise in Islamic terrorism."
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"The object of terrorism is terrorism. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture is torture. The object of murder is murder. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?"
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"Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity."
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"Terrorism, War & Bankruptcy are caused by the privatization of money, issued as a debt and compounded by interest."
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"The United States happens to be the only state in the world that has been condemned by the World Court for international terrorism."
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"We all have to be concerned about terrorism, but you will never end terrorism by terrorizing others."
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"Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism."
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"The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chain saws."
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"If Clinton had only attacked terrorism as much as he attacks George Bush we wouldn't be in this problem."
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"Death is only a byproduct of terrorism."
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"There can be no doubt that these attacks are deliberate acts of terrorism, carefully planned and coordinated and as such I condemn them utterly. Terrorism must be fought resolutely wherever it appears."
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"We are all hostages, and we are all terrorists. This circuit has replaced that other one of masters and slaves, the dominating and the dominated, the exploiters and the exploited. It is worse than the one it replaces, but at least it liberates us from liberal nostalgia and the ruses of history."
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"Terrorism is a significant threat to peace and security, prosperity and people."
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"One of the main reasons for the conflict in Syria, and the terrorism that it's spawned, is climate change and drought."
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"Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint."
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"Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known."
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"The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket."
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"I'm not afraid of terrorism at all. I'm afraid of loss of our freedom, loss of mobility, loss of global comradeship."
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"I think we defeat terrorism by showing them that we do not fear them."
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"It's only terrorism if they do it to us. When we do much worse to them, it's not terrorism."
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