Terror Quotations

When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can't ever start a work of art.

True enough, Osama bin Laden is dead and other al-Qaeda leaders have joined him. But, the assassination of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans in Benghazi is a brutal reminder that radical Islamic terror groups have not disappeared and certainly are not dormant.

Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave from the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave.

General Howe turned out some German wild boars and sows in his forests, to the great terror of the neighbourhood; and, at one time, a wild bull or buffalo: but the country rose upon them and destroyed them.

We don't have a war on terror - that's a technique. We didn't have a war on blitzkriegs, and we didn't have a war on surprise attacks.

The Islamic terror threat is so fierce, unrelenting and barbaric that we tell ourselves fairy tales about how these ruthless acts are anything but what they are: acts of war.

I ran away from home. I ran away from St. Louis, and then I ran away from the United States of America, because of that terror of discrimination, that horrible beast which paralyzes one's very soul and body.

Being a writer can be a very lonely profession, but having a network of people who can sympathize with everything you're going through - from contract issues to the terror of changing your novel from past- to present-tense - is an invaluable asset.

Warfare against civilians must never be answered in kind. Terror must never be answered with terror.

Some historians trace the start of the War on Terror to November 4, 1979, the day the hostages were taken in Tehran.

Now there is this whole terror about getting old. Today, that fascination with youth is overrated. What's so special about being young? I just say that because I'm old.

In El Salvador, when neighbors were disappeared, tortured or killed, people doubted their own knowledge of the victims, and worried there must have been some secret guilt involved to deserve such punishment! That's how political terror succeeds.

To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.

I've done a lot of death cartoons - tombstones, Grim Reaper, illness, obituaries... I'm not great at analyzing things, but my guess is that maybe the only relief from the terror of being alive is jokes.

'Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere' took me six years to write.

I understand about this idea of terror and what it means to Americans and this idea that we can't just walk around free like we did; life has changed.

With our Reserve and Guard units playing increasingly important roles in the war on terror and in Iraq, it is unacceptable to make them jump through any unnecessary hurdles.

I support this war on terror and the war on radical Islam.

At Cheney's initiative, the United States stripped terror suspects of long-established rights under domestic and international law, building a new legal edifice under exclusive White House ownership.

I've been a fan since I was a kid of that sort of bump-in-the-night stuff. I don't tend to go in too much for the slash-and-burn-'em or the walker kills on 'The Walking Dead.' That stuff's not necessarily the stuff that frightens me or gets me going. It's more the terror of waiting, the thriller aspects, that I find compelling.

The economic tsunami has hit all airline employees. With the 2001 terror attacks, airline bankruptcies, pension terminations, loss of pay, changes in work rules - we're all working harder and longer than we used to.

Iraq and Afghanistan will, over time, become stable. But the War on Terror will continue long after Iraq and Afghanistan have had success in standing up their own governments.

My submission to you is we're fighting the war on terror not overseas but in our own streets, and we'd be spending vast more fortunes to try to be a defensive country to protect ourselves rather than an offensive country to spread democracy wherever people yearn for it.

That is why we wholeheartedly support the American-led effort to free the people of Iraq. And though we are a small country with a small military, we are proud to stand side by side with our allies in the fight to end the reign of terror in Baghdad.

Society feeds terror and is in turn terrorized; we are afraid to lose, so we consume.

The war on terror is a fight that we did not start, but it is one that we shall finish.

The men and women on the front lines of the war on terror continue to risk their lives to save ours - and for that we owe them a debt that we can never truly repay. Thanks to their efforts we have made tremendous progress. Yet, the job is not done.

And the terror itself is an example of the world's uncontrollability.

Can a democratic nation fight a War on Terror and at the same time bend over backward so as not to offend a few visitors' rights?

Every film can be fun, even if it's a terror.

We must fight and win the battle against terror overseas so we never have to fight it here at home.

I ran away from St. Louis, and then I ran away from the United States, because of that terror of discrimination.

The terror dementia sufferers must feel is unimaginable, but the techniques they use to hide their difficulties - the ducking and diving and keeping the world laughing - are perfectly understandable.

Like the experience of warfare, the endurance of grave or terminal illness involves long periods of tedium and anxiety, punctuated by briefer interludes of stark terror and pain.

I've had one experience of writer's block in my life, and it was living hell. It was a terror for me.

It is standard practice for corrupt leaders who are seeking a certain political outcome to hype or manipulate a terror threat or a threat of violent domestic subversion. While sometimes the threat is manufactured, frequently the hyped threat is based on a real danger.

Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.

I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.

Some even claim that I'm a terror, a dictator and they're right.

Just as little as terror - not even the terror of war - can save the world, just as little can hate ever be anything uplifting. Love is the only firm ground for peace - not only love for one's fellowmen, but first of all, love of one's country.

I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.

If the United States had maintained its spending under Ronald Reagan, it is possible that the attacks of 9/11 - presaged by Islamic terror attacks on multiple American targets beginning with the first bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993 - would have been stopped.

The primary theory embraced by the Bush administration to justify its War on Terror policies was that the 'battlefield' is no longer confined to identifiable geographical areas, but instead, the entire globe is now one big, unlimited 'battlefield.'

I'm not one of those guys that has a great worldview. I kind of deal with terror and fear and isolation and abandonment.

Books and all forms of writing have always been objects of terror to those who seek to suppress the truth.

The roaring thunder of the law and the fear of the terror of judgment are both used to bring us to Christ, but the final victory culminating in our salvation is won through God's loving-kindness.

Terror works like a musical composition, so many instruments, all in tune, playing perfectly together to create their desired effect. Sorrow and horror and fear.

I had to test a new terror in myself.

When I don't have a story to tell, I'm a terror to live with.

We live in a world where terror has become a too familiar part of our vocabulary. The terror of 9/11, in which al-Qaeda's attacks on America launched the nation into three wars - against Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Islamic State.

Living in a state of terror was new to many white people in America, but black people have been living in a state of terror in this country for more than 400 years.

The powerful emotional connection between Roosevelt and Churchill and how they confronted tyranny and terror is an incredibly contemporary story that yields important lessons for leaders today on a personal, political, and diplomatic level.

The plot behind this terror attack is obvious - to agitate the situation in a country that holds a leading position in the Arab world and to undermine the situation in the Middle East as a whole.

We're not going to pay with Israeli lives while they are experimenting in trying to reach understandings with terror organizations and they continue to carry out terror attacks against us.

We've been able to achieve great things amid great challenges- including the stock market crash of 1987, the bursting of the stock bubble in 2000, two wars and the September 11, 2001, terror attacks. Alan Greenspan might be thought of as our most valuable economic player.

When we consider Iran, Nigeria and now the tape from Bin Laden, the terror premium must be put back into the price.

We know what kind of role Syria is taking in letting terror organizations increase their activities, but unfortunately they're not doing anything to prevent it from stopping. More than that, they're encouraging all of this,

Very few graduates have that combination of skills ... many students are shying away from language courses and travelling to places like Indonesia or Malaysia because of the terror warnings.

We were horrified by the news of the bomb attack in Madrid this morning. This detestable act of terror that claimed so many victims fills us with deep sorrow and outrage.

I am stigmatized by a living death in which real death holds no terrors for me.

Yeah, that's right. Flee in terror, bitches!

Every single day, we could be in a motorcar accident, so, we have to carry on with our lives, and not imagine terror around every corner.

We are not alleging any connections to any terror organization other than the FARC.

The people of Ecuador, particularly the people of Quito, today have ended the dictatorship, the immorality, the great power, the terror of fear,

Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.

That which is clearly known hath less terror than that which is but hinted at and guessed.

A person could spend most of a lifetime in retrospective terror, thinking of all the things one nearly didn't do.

This raises serious questions about the monitoring of terror suspects. The government should now answer our call for an independent inquiry so that the lessons of the July bombings can be learned.

When I look back at many of the moments of wonder, awe, or terror that I've got from science fiction, it's often been because I've been put in the head of one of the characters.

The primary goal of the War on Terror is to prevent an attack from happening.

I'm always fascinated with how a person becomes a good quality person, a productive person, and how it happened to me, because I was a terror.

Let me be clear. We have the forces, the capabilities and the intention to fully prosecute the global war on terror while responding to this unprecedented humanitarian crisis here at home,

Look, you guys read the polls just like I do. And this is a terror campaign. And they are trying to create the impression that we and the Iraqis cannot succeed in Iraq,

Look - this is the terror of being a founder & CEO. It is all your fault. Every decision, every person you hire, every dumb thing you buy or do - ultimately, you're at the end.

sends a deadly message that encourages terror on the one hand and prevents countries from protecting themselves against it on the other.

Since September 11, our nation has engaged in a policy of institutionalized racial and ethnic profiling, ... If Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. were alive today ... he would tell us we must not allow the horrific acts of terror our nation has endured to slowly and subversively destroy the foundation of our democracy.

Sir, I have tested your machine. It adds new terror to life and makes death a long-felt want.

Since our dark day of terror almost four years ago, we as Americans have become much more aware of our surroundings, and the nature of our enemy.

She really went for it and that was great because it gave a certain terror to my performance. She was incredibly vivid.

Most people make plans about a month before they travel. We haven't seen any anecdotal evidence showing people are canceling plans for the weekend, ... Americans have gotten used to terror alerts after having gone through the drill before. I think the difference now is that people do want to get away and they're putting more importance to that than being holed up in the house in fear.

Of course terror has a role in the disengagement. It convinced us that Gaza was not worth holding onto and awakened us to the demographic danger. It took two intifadas for a majority of Israelis to decide that Gaza is not worth it.

Now there is a real chance that new Palestinian leaders will rise -- those who will be elected -- who will truly abandon the path of terror and instead will advance a strategy of reconciliation and negotiation without violence, terror and hatred,

People will wake up and realize the war on terror has just moved one step forward,

On one level, bombing ISIS is easy. The U.S. knows where the group operates. There's no need for a ten-year hunt like the one for Osama bin Laden. The terror group has two capital cities: Mosul in Iraq and Raqqa in Syria. Al-Qaeda never had such an obvious home address.

I would doubt very much whoever did it had a terror link. Normally, they don't go for high-risk ventures with massive amounts of law enforcement focus.

If we don't have quiet, the terror organisations will not know quiet,

If the risk is a return to repression and the terror of the Taliban, and there is a chance of success then we should not be afraid of this mission, even if it will be difficult.

If they are good enough for health care investigations, good enough for drug investigations, they should be provided to law enforcement in terror investigations.

I did say this was one of the world's neglected emergencies. The victims of the terror are still neglected to a high degree and the situation unabated. We need to do more.

Basically he's been a terror in the community and a pussycat in custody,

I feel the pain of the family and I wish that the wounded will heal, ... Israel will not yield and will continue fighting terror until it is destroyed just like we are fighting it now.

Freedom is humankind's greatest, most ennobling idea, and its surest antidote to terror and tyranny.

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.

If the targets continue to be specific industries such as financial firms and airlines, it's not clear that another terror attack will have strong ripple effects through the rest of the economy.

He had a reign of terror for three decades.

We studied the change in temperature range that occurred during the three-day period immediately following the 9/11 terror attacks when airplanes were grounded and compared those to the three-day period immediately before and afterwards.

Today, Iraq is facing one of the most brutal campaigns of terror at the hands of the forces of darkness,

Today, history is being written by the valiant men and women of America's armed forces and by determined citizens who will do all they can to win this test of wills ? for that is what it is ? to keep our children from experiencing the heartbreak and terror of Sept. 11,

Have you ever noticed there is never any third act to a nightmare? They bring you to a climax of terror and then leave you there.

Gonzales's nomination may very well do us more harm internationally because of his relationship with the terror memos and that is a different story.