Terror Quotes

We’ve sourced some of the most interesting and thought-provoking Terror Quotes from Johnny Isakson, Peter Bergen, Karen DeCrow, Marsha Blackburn, Katherine Dunn. Each of the following quotes is overflowing with creativity, and knowledge.

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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.
Johnny Isakson
It is hard to imagine two more final endings to the ‘war on terror’ than the popular revolts against the authoritarian regimes in the Middle East and the death of bin Laden.
Peter Bergen
The Metropolitan Opera, of course, is the gold standard in opera. The Met experience includes the huge stage, the vast audience, the elaborate sets. Anyone who saw ‘Faust’ there – I did – knows exactly what hell is like, complete with fire, smoke and terror.
Karen DeCrow
This is now a global war on terror and, indeed, it is important, it is imperative that we win in the battles in Afghanistan and that we win in the battles in Iraq. And as the gentleman from Georgia has mentioned, this is not something that is going to be quick and easy.
Marsha Blackburn
American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.
Katherine Dunn
I remember as a little kid, I would always feel comfortable if the light in the crack of my parents’ door was on at night. When it went off, that meant they were asleep. Then that terror and the fear of being by myself started to creep in.
James Gray
Clinton himself acted in ways which increased the threat of terror.
Noam Chomsky
I was in New York when they had the massive blackout – all of Manhattan blacked out. It was a year or two after 9/11, it was pre-smartphones, and everyone thought it was a terror attack. It was like the end of the world.
Brett Goldstein
The Jewish people and the Negro people both know the meaning of Nordic supremacy. We have both looked into the eyes of terror.
Langston Hughes
We have entered a new phase in Islamist terror. Fifteen years after 9/11, our enemies have regained their momentum.
Michael McCaul
When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can’t ever start a work of art.
Jeanne Moreau
We must re-ignite that American spirit in order to create good jobs, to keep America safe from terror, to replace Obamacare with consumer choice solutions, and to secure our borders.
Ryan Frazier
There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
Alfred Hitchcock
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.
Maya Angelou
The number of fighters that are ISIS fighters wouldn’t fill up most American football stadiums. This is not a large group of individuals, but they’re tenacious, and they rule with absolute terror.
James Lankford
Hamas is a terror organization with a covenant that speaks about the elimination of the Jewish people and the State of Israel. They are not partners for negotiations.
Ariel Sharon
We don’t have to learn to live with terror, but we must be prepared and accept the reality it is here.
Katie Pavlich
I look in the mirror expecting to be 34 and see someone who is 58. What’s that all about? I haven’t even thought about turning 60 yet, but so many of my friends have celebrated it by now that it’s lost its terror. And I don’t mind being 58; it’s just such a surprise when one doesn’t feel it at all.
Deborah Moggach
I came of age during AIDS and the terror of that and the sadness and the death and the overwhelming despair.
Ryan Murphy
As we are all aware, Special Operations Forces, SOF, are playing an increasingly essential role as we continue to fight and, more importantly, win the war on terror.
Robin Hayes
I think the War on Terror is really absurd, especially coming from a country that is founded on terrorism.
Alice Walker
Poverty is terror. Having your Social Security threatened is terror. Having your livelihood as an elderly person slowly disappearing with no replenishment is terror.
Harry Belafonte
Military confrontation is not a suitable alternative in confronting terror and current security threats.
Jalal Talabani
We became convinced that, regardless of Stalin’s awful brutality and his reign of terror, he was a great war leader. Without Stalin, they never would have held.
W. Averell Harriman
Opening Iran up to foreign investment, increasing its oil exports, and unfreezing over $100 billion in assets means more money for Hamas for building terror tunnels in Gaza, more weapons for Hezbollah in Lebanon, more slaughter in Syria, and more violence worldwide.
Ted Deutch
Since when can somebody tell me a time or a case where there has been a Syrian refugee in this country who has committed an act of terror?
Linda Sarsour
Reduced investment in U.S. diplomatic efforts could cripple our ability to prevent and respond to national security threats abroad – including infectious diseases and terror threats.
Abigail Spanberger
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.
Tom Brokaw
Who knows what true loneliness is – not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.
Joseph Conrad
Statements in support of radical terror organizations have become the norm for certain left wing members of Congress.
Madison Cawthorn
I never lose that terror of ‘this is my last job, I’ll never work again.’ You can never relax and rely on whatever reputation you’ve built.
Derek Jacobi
National interest is above anything else. Just because you sit in an air-conditioned room, you can say you shouldn’t relate cricket and movies to politics. Ask anyone who has lost a family member to terror attacks, and you will get your answer.
Gautam Gambhir
We must fight and win the battle against terror overseas so we never have to fight it here at home.
Ron Lewis
Being asked to play ‘The Doctor’ is an amazing privilege. Like the Doctor himself I find myself in a state of utter terror and delight. I can’t wait to get started.
Peter Capaldi
The United States needs to be far clearer: we cannot and will not support any government where Hamas has a real influence and the security forces stop fighting terror.
Elliott Abrams
Because the nights bring the threat of invasion and terror to the villages, thousands of children in northern Uganda have become night commuters, leaving the nightmare of capture behind for the safety of the city.
Sam Childers
The lax multiculturalism that urges Americans to accept the unacceptable from their fellow citizens is one of this nation’s greatest vulnerabilities in the war on terror.
Richard Perle
When Britain and the U.S. invaded Iraq, it was with the reasonable expectation that it was going to increase the threat of terror, as it has.
Noam Chomsky
The demons are innumerable, appear at the most inconvenient times, and create panic and terror. But I have learnt that if I can master the negative forces and harness them to my chariot, then they can work to my advantage.
Ingmar Bergman
It’s a tough time my friends. We need to make sacrifices to ensure our troops have the tools they need in order to get the job done. This budget will help us win the War on Terror.
Dennis Hastert
We of course define all terror organizations as threats, but the PKK is the primary threat.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
I like to behave in an extremely normal, wholesome manner for the most part in my daily life. Even if mentally I’m consumed with sick visions of violence, terror, sex and death.
Courtney Love
Victory is the most important aspect in Iraq, because victory in Iraq will help us have victory in the War on Terror.
Andrew Card
It’s so much fun playing Ling, but I have this fear that people are going to run away from me in terror on the streets. They think I’m going to bite their heads off or something.
Lucy Liu
The Obama administration notoriously refuses to acknowledge that Islamists commit Islamist terror, so it logically follows that a Christian victim of Islamist violence should not address the issue lest it challenge accepted political orthodoxy.
Pete Hoekstra
In rhetoric and action, the Trump administration has aggrandized ‘radical Islamic terror,’ thus making what Madison called a ‘favorable emergency’ more likely.
Timothy D. Snyder
It’s weird to take your work into a room and everybody reads it. Then comes the terror part, the dissection.
Amanda Shires
Remaining vigilant toward this ever-present threat means constantly learning how better to protect ourselves. But primarily it reminds us that we must fight and win the war on terror, so that we do not have to fight it here in America.
Mark Kennedy
In the final analysis, terror is also another proof of the fact that the superpower is not really a superpower. It was vulnerable.
Ulrich Beck
The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde
We’ve investigated Chattanooga as a terror attack from the beginning.
James Comey
True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
Stendhal
As we continue to make great progress in the war on terror, now more than ever, it is important that members of the international community stand-by and bolster the efforts of the emerging diplomatic leaders in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Jim Inhofe
I’m not one of those guys that has a great worldview. I kind of deal with terror and fear and isolation and abandonment.
David Bowie
There’s a Darwinian struggle amongst terror groups for hegemony. Da’esh has broken out of the pack because Al-Qaeda and the rest rendered allegiance to Mullah Omar.
Ashraf Ghani
Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.
Lewis Mumford
It took a lot for me to be able to say that I’m a plus-size model or a model at all without feeling terror or this kind of panic, because it was something so unplanned.
Paloma Elsesser
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.
Naomi Wolf
I really believe that carpet-bombing, bombing civilian populations, is a form of terror – it’s state terror as opposed to vigilante terrorism.
Hamza Yusuf
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.
Mimi Kennedy
The dividing line for Yisrael Beiteinu is who supports terror and who fights terror.
Avigdor Lieberman
The Palestinian Authority has become the biggest terror body in the world.
Naftali Bennett
I hated the compound, I hated the dark, dirty room, I hated the filthy bathroom, and I hated everything about it, especially the constant state of terror and fear.
Mohamedou Ould Slahi
The fact is, our men and women in uniform, the bravest in the world, did everything they could to protect this country from a terror threat and to protect others from the terror threat that was Saddam Hussein. And nobody can deny that we are in a better place because Saddam Hussein is dead.
Cory Gardner
I want to ask those who are aiding terror, what do you get by taking innocent lives? Islam is a religion of peace; you are maligning its name.
Sheikh Hasina
Since 9/11, the Justice Department has been widely criticized for one particular tactic it uses in fighting the War on Terror: it detains suspicious persons for long periods of time and puts them under heavy questioning before they are ever even charged with a crime.
Annie Jacobsen
Imams seldom condemn terror. And in their silence, in the void, acceptance – encouragement even – is assumed.
Katie Hopkins
In spite of overwhelming grief and terror, I left Westboro in 2012.
Megan Phelps-Roper
What interests me is the sense of the darkness that we carry within us, the darkness that’s akin to one of the principal subjects of the sublime – terror.
Anish Kapoor
Wars such as those which have occurred in Iraq only allow hatred, violence and terror to proliferate.
Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
We know that our life of freedom is stronger than terror.
Angela Merkel
Universal Orlando may have the new Harry Potter Wizarding World, but Disney World has the Hari Puttar Experience, based on the Bollywood movie, ‘Hari Puttar: A Comedy of Terrors.’
Andrew Shaffer
The primary goal of the War on Terror is to prevent an attack from happening.
Marco Rubio
I know what it is like to experience terror, to feel despondent, to live in fear. I know how wearying and hopeless life can be sometimes.
Phan Thi Kim Phuc
A history of perceived humiliation, after all, lurks behind many acts of terror. And competing narratives of victimhood and insults sustain conflicts in the Balkans, the Caucasus, the Middle East and many other regions.
Serge Schmemann
My father was predisposed to drunken rages. I would hide under the bed. My sister and I were talking just the other day about the terror a drunken man in a rage can create in a child.
Antonio Villaraigosa
When the Paris terror attacks happen, when war breaks out in Ukraine, when unrest happens in Ferguson, people know that CNN is the place to come.
Jeff Zucker
After the invasion of Afghanistan, when the focus suddenly turned toward Iraq, I suddenly thought, ‘What on earth had Iraq got to do with the war on terror?’
Katharine Gun
We must all stand against both the continual, systematic, and structural racial inequities that normalize daily violence as well as against extreme acts of racial terror.
Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
An administrator in a bureaucratic world is a man who can feel big by merging his non-entity in an abstraction. A real person in touch with real things inspires terror in him.
Marshall McLuhan
We must learn the correct lessons from the U.S. war on terror, which, far from making the U.S., its citizens and interests safe across the world has only increased insecurity worldwide and has led to many more terror attacks on U.S. interests and citizens across the world.
Prashant Bhushan
I know that I can sing really loud. It’s like having that really big Evinrude engine on the back of your fishing boat. But I’ve been trying to be more dynamic with my voice, and not just singing on 10 all of the time out of terror.
Neko Case
The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into an expression of light relief; of tragedy, to wound them and bring the relief of tears. Disgust and terror are the other points of the compass.
Laurence Olivier
I think there are always people that you meet in your life that scare you a little, but not because of the terror in their eyes so much as their unpredictability.
Joshua Sasse
But let there be no misunderstanding. The war against terror is every bit as important as our fight against fascism in World War II. Or our struggle against the spread of Communism during the Cold War.
Jim Bunning
Since when has delivering a fitting reply to a terror attack become politicisation of security?
Amit Shah
Social media serve as the propaganda machine of 21st century terror, and this is apparent in the Middle East.
Lee Zeldin
A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
What is our capability when someone posts a public social media posting that says that they’re going to conduct attacks on the United States on behalf of the Islamic State. Why can’t we pick up that information and then stop that act of terror?
Michael McCaul
In India’s eastern side, there are communist terror outfits and in the western side there are Islamic terror organisations. These outfits ensure that there is always a state of anarchy.
Vivek Agnihotri
Iraq is the central battleground in the war on terror. The terrorists certainly know what is at stake, which is why they are pulling out all the stops to derail our efforts there. They know that a free and democratic Iraq is a serious blow to their interests.
Elizabeth Dole
We are providing a platform to creators who are expressing their emotions; they are expressing what they are feeling – fears, joys, terror. That’s what art is about, and we don’t want to censor it, but neither would we permit violence which feels gratuitous or glorified to be on our platform.
Dana Walden
Certainly, I cannot say that my government’s relationship with Pakistan was free of problems. I think the control of terror is our primary concern. And Pakistan made promises it didn’t keep.
Manmohan Singh
Countries such as Iraq, Iran, Libya and Syria, which support terrorist organizations and use terror to achieve their objectives, are precisely the same countries working tirelessly to acquire weapons of mass destruction. This combination creates a new dimension to the threat on our way of life in the 21st century.
Ariel Sharon
Other places are also generators of far-flung violence beyond their own borders – Pakistan and Saudi Arabia are obvious examples – but none has as long a history of war, resistance, and terror as Chechnya.
Stephen Kinzer
The uncertainty of parenting can bring up feelings in us that range from frustration to terror.
Brene Brown
We know we must win the war on terror to protect innocent people and the freedoms that define our way of life.
Doc Hastings
Ever since 9/11, our intelligence agencies, as part of the ‘war on terror,’ have expanded their operations to include American citizens. I was ‘terrorized’ when I learned that the National Security Agency was intercepting information on Americans.
Bob Beckel
Books and all forms of writing have always been objects of terror to those who seek to suppress the truth.
Wole Soyinka
Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.
Frank Herbert
This year’s Veterans Day celebration is especially significant as our country remains committed to fighting the War on Terror and as brave men and women are heroically defending our homeland.
John Doolittle
For Tammy Duckworth to blame the junior senator from Illinois for Islamic terror shows that she is a naive fool not fit for office in the Senate.
Mark Kirk
I owed Lewis one thing, at least. Once you had suffered the experience of presenting a case at one of his Monday morning conferences, no other public appearance, whether on radio, TV or the lecture platform, could hold any terrors for you.
Anthony Storr
The war on terror, if this is a war on terror, can only be won by a sincere regional and international cooperation. All have to believe they have something at stake and work together. In the absence of this it will become political and interest-oriented.
Hamid Karzai
I’m definitely writing my fears. It’s almost therapeutic to at least voice a terror, to say, ‘I’m worried that Lake Powell looks low and Lake Mead looks even lower.’
Paolo Bacigalupi
All together, we know for many years that terror is the most dangerous thing for local, regional and international stability.
Ariel Sharon
When we carried out air strike across the border after the Pulwama terror attack, we had told the international community that we took that step in self-defence only. We had told the international community that the armed forces were instructed not to harm any Pakistani citizen or its soldier during the strike.
Sushma Swaraj
Iraq is no diversion. It is a place where civilization is taking a decisive stand against chaos and terror, we must not waver.
George W. Bush
The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.
Charles Baudelaire
The year 1999, seventh month, from the sky will come a great King of Terror. To bring back to life the great King of the Mongols, before and after Mars to reign by good luck.
Nostradamus
Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be fair in their weight; and keep hucksters and fraudulent dealers in awe, for the same reason.
Miguel de Cervantes
The adrenaline of being somewhere no one has ever been before is, or at least not for thousands of years, is quite extraordinary and by and large that overwhelms the feeling of personal terror.
Tony Robinson
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.
Foster Friess
Terror cannot be finished by one war.
Yitzhak Rabin
I’ve had one experience of writer’s block in my life, and it was living hell. It was a terror for me.
Athol Fugard
Pakistan has assured that it would not allow its territory to be used against India for any acts of terror. India must also reciprocate and address our concerns which are very genuine. Dialogue is the only way forward. Absence of dialogue leads to tension.
Asif Ali Zardari
If you want to conduct terror against Israelis, which is unacceptable, send fighters to do it. Don’t send your women and children.
Naftali Bennett
If Senator Kerry understands the nature of this threat and the need to take on terror, then he should immediately repudiate these troubling comments, and stop all efforts on behalf of his surrogates to blame America for these attacks.
Marc Racicot
Disruptive innovation is competitive strategy for an age seized by terror.
Jill Lepore
Immediately after 11 September, the U.S. closed down the Somali charitable network Al-Barakaat on grounds that it was financing terror. This achievement was hailed one of the great successes of the ‘war on terror.’ In contrast, Washington’s withdrawal of its charges as without merit a year later aroused little notice.
Noam Chomsky
The Olympics is an imperfect interregnum, the parade of nations a fantasy about a peace never won. It offers little relief from strife and no harbor from terror.
Jill Lepore
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.
Johnnie Cochran
The terror of failure can make you feel like a failure. So a bunch of people think you’re not very good at your thing. How much do you invest in what they say? How much do you care? Failure is not putting yourself on the line.
Dylan Moran
My coldest days, my darkest days, ain’t no sun out, all I got is my fans. They the only people I ride for. Believe it or not, if you’re a real Fat Joe fan, a Terror Squad fan, I do it for ya’ll.
Fat Joe
Childhood was terrifying for me. A kid has no control. You’re three feet tall, flat broke, unemployed, and illiterate. Terror snaps you awake. You pay keen attention. People can just pick you up and move you and put you down.
Mary Karr
I don’t remember what was going through my mind, but what was going through my body was fear and terror. I had been on the road with Johnny and working gigs and playing a lot of the organ clubs.
John Abercrombie
Here’s the reality: There is always a credible threat, and terror can strike at any time, anywhere, especially as lone wolf attacks backed up by Islamic ideology become more prevalent.
Katie Pavlich
My grandfather was facing this terror, my parents, myself.
Ariel Sharon
Power manipulates the innocent and terror is born.
Gulzar
First of all, we need to condemn violence and terror without prejudice towards caste, creed or community. All citizens of all religions have been victims and perpetrators at the some time.
Victor Banerjee
If it is terrorism, if it is war on terror, then the Afghan people will join you on terror.
Hamid Karzai
Everybody feels good in their skin for about a minute a day, and the rest of the day, you’re just trying to navigate your way through the sea of terror.
Jessalyn Gilsig
No references to the need to fight terror can be an argument for restricting human rights.
Vladimir Putin
America is so afraid of terror and terrorism to the point that they don’t allow people to move around freely and see what they wish to see. I really wish to see the whole of America, if it is possible.
Muammar al-Gaddafi
It’s extraordinary to hear waves of laughter after you’ve been playing something, night after night, to nothing. That’s why I’m still hooked on acting: the terror of the possibility of things going wrong, the thrill when they go right, and the joy of the company.
Eileen Atkins
As a communication medium, social media is a critical tool for terror groups to exploit.
James Comey
There is no link between the terror attacks of Daesh and the dress of a woman on the beach.
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
Catch-22’s first readers were largely of the generation that went through World War II. For them, it provided a startlingly fresh take, a much-needed, much-delayed laugh at the terror and madness they endured.
Christopher Buckley
Terror works by surprise.
Peter Hitchens
After America won the Cold War, some believed we had come to the ‘end of history,’ and budget-cutters celebrated the so-called ‘peace dividend.’ As a result, we ignored the toxic mixture of militant Islam and terror that ultimately led to 9/11.
Frank Gaffney
Guantanamo allows us to secure dangerous detainees without the risk of escape, while at the same time providing us with valuable intelligence information on how best to proceed in the war against terror and prevent future attacks.
Jim Ryun
The war on terror is a fight that we did not start, but it is one that we shall finish.
Nick Lampson
Our pre-9/11 gun laws allow our enemies in the War on Terror to arm themselves right here in our own country.
Carolyn McCarthy
Society feeds terror and is in turn terrorized; we are afraid to lose, so we consume.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Our ports and our borders are the most unprotected fronts in the war on terror.
J. D. Hayworth
We simply cannot afford to allow our government to go unscrutinised, most of all in amid the bleak seeming imperatives of the ‘war on terror’.
Nick Harkaway
I don’t portray a terrorist. The American fans label me a terrorist. It doesn’t matter what I claim to be: in their eyes, I am whatever they say I am despite the fact that I’m not committing any ‘acts of terror.’ I ask you, how am I portraying a terrorist? Because I look like a Muslim?
Mustafa Ali
I’d say that in place of a singular phobic-level terror, I keep a whole collection of running, yet manageable, fears.
Nathan Englander
There is no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror. Just a choice: Defeat it or be defeated by it. And defeat it we must.
Tony Blair
God bless and help all the victims and patriots of 9/11, from the families of Flight 93 passengers to those who were in the Pentagon and Twin Towers as well as others who have fought and presently fight the war on terror.
Chuck Norris
The Palestinians have arrived at the conclusion that nothing can be achieved using terror.
Ariel Sharon
The greats are ‘The Shining’, ‘Rosemary’s Baby’, ‘Don’t Look Now’, ‘The Exorcist’ – those movies were not really slashers: they were about psychological terror and had very deep emotional backdrops. If we do our best, ‘6 Miranda Drive’ can be that kind of a movie.
Kevin Bacon
The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror – and America is honored to be their friend.
George W. Bush
Before there was radical Islam, immigration and terror didn’t mix.
Greg Gutfeld
Christianity has made of death a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan.
Ouida
Iran is Iran. It has a regime that is destabilized in the region, that is spreading terror.
Ron Johnson
Of all the logical impasses, unknowings, paradoxes, and terrors that provoke laughter, death by its finality and unsolvable mystery is paramount.
Andrew Hudgins
According to various polls conducted, the single most important issue in last week’s election was not the Iraq War, not the War on Terror, not even the economy. It was the cultural war.
John Doolittle
The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.
Jean-Luc Godard
Arafat is the greatest instigator of terror.
Ehud Olmert
It’s one of the terrors of old age that your body is not your friend. Or to be out on the street and be frightened of someone because you’re not in good shape and can’t do anything about it.
Israel Horovitz
This age of terror will end one day, but whether our society can restore the feeling of freedom that once was our birthright is hard to predict.
Lawrence Wright
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.
Laurie Graham
Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was, that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of life, problems and terrors.
Bill Forsyth
Legitimate steps of self-defence which Israel takes in its war against Palestinian terror – actions which any sovereign state is obligated to undertake to ensure the security of its citizens – are presented by those who hate Israel as aggressive, Nazi-like steps.
Ariel Sharon
I ran away from St. Louis, and then I ran away from the United States, because of that terror of discrimination.
Josephine Baker
Carter’s hopes died when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan and he ended up having to reverse policy and launch the military buildup that Reagan continued. Mr. Obama would be forced back into a war on terror if terrorist groups pull off enough damaging or frightening attacks to force this issue to the fore.
Walter Russell Mead
I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.
Charles Baudelaire
The United States stands with our friends in Britain as they recover from today’s shock of terrorism. These barbaric acts strengthen our resolve and remind us all of the danger of complacency during our continued war on terror.
Mark Foley
Unbeknownst to most American investors, significant portions of their public pension, mutual fund, life insurance and private portfolios are comprised of stocks of privately held companies that partner with state sponsors of terror.
Frank Gaffney
Mateen pledged allegiance to ISIS during his attack, the worst terror attack on American soil since 9/11.
Peter Bergen
I try to tell the best story, and the story that has some heart and some genuine terror and some social commentary and some comedy and some romance and some sex and some violence.
Alan Ball
Abroad, our most important policy is to support our troops and continue forward-thinking foreign policy in the war on terror – keeping our enemies on the run and hitting them before they hit us.
Christopher Bond
I was raised with fear of God, guilt over Jesus, and terror of the Devil.
Dory Previn
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
Kurt Vonnegut
To this day I have no idea what dissident professor or librarian placed feminist texts on the bookshelves at the university library in Jeddah, but I found them there. They filled me with terror. I understood they were pulling at a thread that would unravel everything.
Mona Eltahawy
We are not without empathetic terror when we open Pascal’s ‘Pensees’ and read, ‘I am the great silent spaces between worlds.’
Carl Sagan
Congress must not do something just for the sake of doing something. We must carefully and thoughtfully consider the implications of any action and whether that action will help or hinder our ultimate mission of protecting U.S. citizens from terror.
Richard Burr
If you’re too dangerous to buy an airplane ticket, you’re too dangerous to buy an assault weapon. And, when we talk about the Second Amendment – I support the Second Amendment – but the Second Amendment was created and designed to prevent tyranny and not to encourage terror.
Jim Gray
The famous saying ‘God is love’, it is generally assumed, means that God is like our immediate emotional indulgence, not that the meaning of love ought to have something of the ‘otherness’ and terror of God.
Charles Williams
As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation’s security.
Patrick J. Kennedy
The thing that I champion is sustainability. My terror is that suddenly we see it as a luxury, not an essential. That’s a danger.
Kevin McCloud
We have been sold a Muslim boogeyman. We are buying into it, and we are terrified, and that terror is causing people to lash out at comedians like myself or women wearing hijabs, or anyone who seems to defend equality for Muslims worldwide.
Maysoon Zayid
Like many Americans my thoughts and prayers are with the people of London. My deepest sympathies are extended to those who lost a loved one in the recent terror attacks.
Doc Hastings
Abu Mazen has got to do only one thing: to fight terror. That’s what he needs to do.
Ehud Olmert
Any time you have someone’s first-hand account of the sheer terror that ISIS can provoke… that’s powerful.
Chuck Fleischmann
The 21st century can and must be an American century. It began with terror, war, and economic calamity. It is our duty to steer it onto the path of freedom, peace, and prosperity.
Mitt Romney
I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I’ll go for the gross-out. I’m not proud.
Stephen King
We are not going to turn our backs on people who have been persecuted, turn our backs on people who have been threatened by terror.
Gavin Newsom
In the years of the Red Terror that followed the Bolshevik Revolution, the voice of dissent was stifled by universal denunciations, house searches, and preventive arrests.
Norman Davies
The people and places that cause terror in childhood cause attraction in adulthood. We end up being repetitively attracted to the same kind of person that obliges us by acting out the same behavior over again.
Drew Pinsky
Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.
Herbert Spencer
People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.
Max Beerbohm
Friends, to me for years St. Louis represented a city of fear… humiliation… misery and terror… A city where in the eyes of the white man a Negro should know his place and had better stay in it.
Josephine Baker
Every Muslim leader must unequivocally proclaim that terror committed in the name of Islam violates the core tenets of the Prophet Mohammed, and they must do so repeatedly. Period.
Mike Pompeo
Among the old Norse, it was the custom for certain warriors to dress in the skins of the beasts they had slain, and thus to give themselves an air of ferocity, calculated to strike terror into the hearts of their foes.
Sabine Baring-Gould
In many regions, war and terror prevail. States disintegrate. For many years, we have read about this. We have heard about it. We have seen it on TV. But we had not yet sufficiently understood that what happens in Aleppo and Mosul can affect Essen or Stuttgart. We have to face that now.
Angela Merkel
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.
Bob Beauprez
The period that directly follows the dissolution of a long term relationship is extremely volatile, with emotions running the gamut from misery to elation to relief to terror.
Emily V. Gordon
Going to school was an absolute terror for me for, like, a decade.
Jonathan Van Ness
They do believe that if we do not wage this war against terror in places like Baghdad and Kabul, we are more likely to have it waged in Baltimore and Kansas.
Ed Gillespie
What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.
Mario Puzo
The terror of figuring out a new genre, of telling a new story, is what makes the job exciting, keeps me from getting bored, and I assume it keeps whoever follows my work from getting bored as well.
Colson Whitehead
I like to be in waiting rooms with people as they’re auditioning, because their terror calms me.
John C. McGinley
Not one of the 9/11 terrorists entered through Mexico – and yet Mexicans bore the brunt of this country’s immigration response to the terror attacks.
Beto O’Rourke
The first time I got up in front of an audience was terror, abject terror, which continued for another four or five years. There still is, a little bit.
Bob Newhart
Do not forget that the Arab countries, starting with Algeria and Egypt, are the ones that have paid the heaviest toll because of Islamic terror.
Omar Bongo
If citizens and those in the communities where Islamic terror festers are willing to take the risk of engaging and reporting suspicions, authorities have an absolute obligation to take their concerns seriously.
Katie Pavlich
If you’re a Muslim and you love America and freedom and you hate terror, stay here and help us win and make a future together. We want you.
William J. Clinton
I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did – or did not do – to put the fire out in Africa. History, like God, is watching what we do.
Bono
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.
Peter Pace
We have adopted a multi-pronged strategy against the attempts to radicalise the youth of the country. On the one hand, we have successfully de-radicalised our youth, and on the other hand, our security agencies have also taken action against certain individuals for their links and association with terror organisations.
Rajnath Singh
The paradoxical War on Terror is based on a kind of willed stupidity; the willed stupidity of wishful thinking. Only the logic of dreamwork can suture ‘War’ with ‘Terror’ in this way, since terrorists were, by classical definition, those without ‘legitimate authority’ to wage war.
Mark Fisher
Every film can be fun, even if it’s a terror.
Steve Guttenberg
When my grandpa was moved to physical action, you felt utter terror.
Liev Schreiber
Enough of this occupation, terror and abuse. We are not in need of your help. We are able to combat and defeat terrorism, and achieve unity. We are not in need of your bases, your experience and etc.
Muqtada al Sadr
So I think that our foreign policy, the president’s strong and principled leadership when it comes to the war against terror and foreign policy is going to be an asset.
Ed Gillespie
The difference between political terror and ordinary crime becomes clear during the change of regimes, in which former terrorists become well-regarded representatives of their country.
Jurgen Habermas
People only talk about what a joyous experience it is, but there is terror: Your life, as you know it, is over. It’s over the day that child is born. It’s over, and something completely new starts.
Bill Murray
There’s nothing like the vast, dark Atlantic to remind you of your mortality. But terror can also be exhilarating.
Sarah Hall
Israel was born under the British mandate. We learned from the British what democracy means, and how it behaves in a time of danger, war and terror. We thank Britain for introducing freedom and respect of human rights both in normal and demanding circumstances.
Shimon Peres
Either we destroy world terror or world terror will destroy us.
Ehud Barak
I like to deal with EVERY aspect of our condition, and that means terror and humor in equal mix. Some books have more room for humor than others.
Dean Koontz
Right now, there is no way that the federal government can prevent someone who’s on the terror watch list from buying a gun – none.
Ted Deutch
I’ve never experienced complete terror, knock on wood, or running for my life or any of that.
Maika Monroe
All terror groups are bad, and we shall fight them all.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
And the terror itself is an example of the world’s uncontrollability.
Ulrich Beck
We are concerned that Germany, which has protected the PKK and DHKP-C for years, has become the backyard of the Gulenist terror organisation.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
I can’t separate the fight with terrorism and the fight against global warming. These are two big global challenges we have to face up to because we have to leave our children more than a world free of terror; we also owe them a planet protected from catastrophes.
Francois Hollande
History is replete with ideologies of freedom, justice, liberation of the downtrodden and the exploited, that have been turned against the very people they had mobilised, or that have reproduced the same logic of exclusion and terror toward those whom they claimed to set free.
Tariq Ramadan
The aspiring tyrants of today have not forgotten the lesson of 1933: that acts of terror – real or fake, provoked or accidental – can provide the occasion to deal a death blow to democracy.
Timothy D. Snyder
The amount of death terror experienced is closely related to the amount of life unlived.
Irvin D. Yalom
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.
Alastair Reynolds
In fighting terror, you cannot let it interfere with the normal life of civilians in Israel.
Yitzhak Rabin
It has been rightly said that nothing is unimportant, nothing powerless in the universe; a single atom can dissolve everything, and save everything! What terror! There lies the eternal distinction between good and evil.
Gerard De Nerval
Key to America’s success in ending the War on Terror will be a continued partnership with one of our most important allies – Israel.
Ronny Jackson
Israel has many hopes, and faces extreme dangers. The most prominent danger is Iran, which is making every effort to acquire nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles, and establishing an enormous terror network together with Syria in Lebanon.
Ariel Sharon
Again and again since 9/11, terror attacks in the West have been carried out by second-generation Muslims who are citizens of the very country they are attacking.
Peter Bergen
We cannot let fear and terror dictate how we live our lives, no matter what. Life is a blessing with an expiration date, and we must embrace it while we can.
Carmen Carrera
Pakistan is not about to crack down on terror groups or cut its military budget in order to build roads, schools and hospitals.
Stephen Kinzer
Terror is terror is terror, and it doesn’t matter what nationality that terror belongs to.
Reuven Rivlin
I worked for George Bush. I’m proud to have worked for him. I think that a lot of the most controversial things we did, that people didn’t like and – and criticized us for, things like the terror surveillance program or the enhanced interrogation techniques, were things that allowed us to save lives.
Dick Cheney
All Canadians stand together united against any forms of violence, terror against Canadians, and, in fact, against anyone around the world.
Jagmeet Singh
Global terror does not respect national boundaries.
Vikas Swarup
There is no good terror and bad terror. Terror is terror. There’s not terror that you can accept and terror that you cannot accept. Terror is terror. Murder is murder.
Ariel Sharon
I shall support the law, for the law gentlemen, is the firm and solid basis of civil society, the guardian of liberty, the protection of the innocent, the terror of the guilty, and the scourge of the wicked.
Charles Lawrence
One of the downsides of working in antiquity is that you don’t have many female voices, but you certainly have a lot of male terror about the potential of women’s power. It shows you very clearly that the most oppressive cultures tend to be afraid of those whom they oppress.
Mary Beard
Why did the Pakistani military attack us on behalf of JeM? You not only keep JeM on your soil but fund them, and when the victim country retaliates, you attack it on the terror outfit’s behalf.
Sushma Swaraj
Imprisoned by its war on terror framework, the Bush administration supported Israel in a disastrous war against Hezbollah in Lebanon in the summer of 2006.
Peter Bergen
If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.
Oscar Wilde
‘Cartel Land’ explores what happens when – in a Mexican society without order, law or security – vendettas, terror, and corruption go hand in hand with the pursuit of a better world.
Matthew Heineman
Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.
Wole Soyinka
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.
Lisa Graff
So it’s sheer terror, but then, this is the whole reason that we went so long to Doctor Simons, was to get rid of all these… mixed feelings that we had.
Betty Hill
From the age of about five to twelve I was very bad, a hideous little terror who beat people up. I was a member of the Rough Gang – we went around and terrorized all the pupils in school.
Joseph Fiennes
Terror will crash down on us if we fail to understand that a pluralistic society requires the personal and daily commitment of every citizen.
Tariq Ramadan
Unfortunately, terror is now linked to immigration, and anyone with dark skin or a beard or a Muslim name is suspect. Russia, France, then the United Kingdom, and now even Germany have no qualms about going far beyond their borders to strike at the enemies of their countries.
P. Chidambaram
Unity is the most important thing on the road to stamping out terror. You need global rules of law and order, and they have to be enforced. Start with that principle.
Chris Matthews
War in Africa is hardly a new phenomenon, nor are voices telling its stories of terror and triumph. Yet some of the continent’s most devastating conflicts – and the literature born from the experiences of their survivors – have often gone unnoticed in the West.
Uzodinma Iweala
There is a difficulty in combating the type of terror that is perpetrated by groups of radical Jews. It’s terror from within, and it is difficult to bring these perpetrators to justice; we need to create tools in order to combat this style of terrorism.
Reuven Rivlin
Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa’s head which turned these terrors to stone.
R. D. Laing
Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.
Adolf Hitler
How do I confront aging? With a wonder and a terror. Yeah, I’ll say that. Wonder and terror.
Keanu Reeves
Being scared by a movie offers a safe catharsis, because the terror is confined to the screen. It’s an adrenalin spike, and when I come back down, I feel a bit more leveled.
Laura van den Berg
Some have argued that confronting the threat from Iraq could detract from the war against terror. To the contrary, confronting the threat posed by Iraq is crucial to winning the war on terror.
George W. Bush
When I was a kid, I read books that made me laugh but also made me shiver in terror. I wanted to make books that made other people feel the same way.
Bruce Coville
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.
Fatos Nano
We take nothing to the grave with us, but a good or evil conscience… It is true, terrors of conscience cast us down; and yet without terrors of conscience we cannot be raised up again.
Samuel Rutherford
The U.S. is friends with dictatorial regimes, then invades places like Iraq and Afghanistan, and what happens afterwards is a catastrophe. In the place of their leaders, fundamentalist movements that use the name of Islam spring up, and all that’s left is terror and bloodshed.
Ayman Odeh
The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream?
Brendan Behan
Congress has a responsibility to make sure our taxpayer dollars are being spent responsibly and effectively, and at the same time, that our men and women in uniform have everything they need to carry out the War on Terror.
Larry Craig
In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that’s filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act.
Don DeLillo
I have a pathological terror of falling through ice. I nearly drowned once. I fell off a boat and got a cramp, and was rescued by an oil-rig diver, a great bear of a man who simply leant into the water and scooped me out with one finger.
Jeremy Clarkson
When I was up in New York, the first record my parents bought me was the Terror Squad record with ‘Lean Back.’
Post Malone
Let there be no doubt: we will be tough on terror wherever it strikes.
Amber Rudd
But the war on terror as I have repeatedly said in the past, and the Afghan people believe in it, in truth, is that the war on terror is not in the Afghan villages or homes. Its in the sanctuaries, it is in the training grounds, its in the motivation factors and the money that comes to it.
Hamid Karzai
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.
Pat Roberts
People’s imagination is the most effective tool in creating terror or dread.
Matt Reeves
I make and watch and think about YouTube for a living. So, when YouTube is launching a new feature I might have any emotion ranging from Christmas-morning enthusiasm to utter terror.
Hank Green
‘Blue Velvet’ changed my life forever. It was like I’d always read Chaucer and suddenly discovered Charles Bukowski. It made me understand that there is poetry of sublime ecstasy and dark terror, and it spoke to a side of me that hadn’t been reached before.
Joe Wright
Seventy years ago this November, Vladimir Lenin created the modern totalitarian state, transforming simpler forms of tyranny into history’s most sophisticated apparatus of rule by terror.
Michael Johns
We cannot win this war on terror if people are undercutting us. And one way to undercut us is to empower Iran.
Lindsey Graham
The liberation of Iraq is a crucial advance in the campaign against terror.
Carl Levin
I’ve wanted to act since I was seven. The year before, I’d been a munchkin in ‘The Wizard of Oz’ and was overcome with terror. The next year I just watched. My sister was in ‘The Little Mermaid’ and I had this deep knowing that I needed to be there on stage, not in the audience.
Sian Clifford
On September 11 2001, America felt its vulnerability even to threats that gather on the other side of the Earth. We resolved then, and we are resolved today, to confront every threat from any source that could bring sudden terror and suffering to America.
George W. Bush
Cosmic terror appears as an ingredient of the earliest folklore of all races and is crystallised in the most archaic ballads, chronicles, and sacred writings.
H. P. Lovecraft
The author of McCarthyism was given the distinction of addressing the Republican National Convention. This strikes terror in the hearts of honest men.
Emanuel Celler
Is the Iranian record of intervention and terror worse than that of the U.S.?
Noam Chomsky
I cannot give a single concert at which I do not play one piece after the other in an agony of terror because my memory threatens to fail me. This fear torments me for days beforehand.
Clara Schumann
Biography is one of the new terrors of death.
John Arbuthnot
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?
Annie Jacobsen
Terrorists do not engage in terror attacks because they are strong. They engage in these attacks because they are weak.
Bret Weinstein
This is an unprecedented pace of terror in modern times. And so, to say they’re on the run absolutely defies reality.
Michael McCaul
It’s not scary to make a horror film because you get to pull back the curtain and see that none of it’s real. When you’re watching one, the terror bombards you.
Josh Hartnett
Terror can never be defeated by force alone.
Charles Kennedy
Nobody would think that anybody on a terror watch list should have a gun, right?
Rick Scott
A Palestinian state will never be created by terror.
Elliott Abrams
For years, the Bush Administration eviscerated all the military and legal structures that were designed to separate the innocent from the guilty in the ‘Global War on Terror.’
Alex Gibney
Pakistan is both an ally in the war on terror, and in some sense, a battleground of the war on terror.
Stephen Hadley
Radical Islamist terror is a crime against the entire free world, including against Israel.
Tzipi Livni
I am not striking any note. I am just putting the facts before the people, that it is the Pakistan Army which is spreading terror in India, sending terrorists to Punjab, and I won’t stand for it.
Amarinder Singh
I believe the war on terror is the vital discussion of this decade and of our generation, probably. To win the war on terror, you need a good offense and a good defense. On defense, I regret to say, basically, this administration has not come close to doing what is necessary.
Chuck Schumer
The disagreeable reality for those who believe in human rights is that there are some occasions – and Iraq may be one of them – when war is the only real remedy for regimes that live by terror.
Michael Ignatieff
The risk of a terrorist victory is greater when in fighting terror, democracy betrays its own essence.
Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
Poe had this curious kind of alchemical courage, where he took all the terrible things and terrors that happened in his life, all this shame and fear and pain, and turned them into great works of art. He was a complex, brilliant person who was just wired too tight.
John Cusack