Quotes about Terrorism

Economist, Philosopher

Violence is fomented by the imposition of singular and belligerent identities on gullible people, championed by proficient artisans of terror.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Lecturer, Philosopher, Poet

A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents. A transcendent talent draws so largely on his forces as tolame him; a defect pays him revenues on the other side.

Man - Payment - Terrorism - Transcendence

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Oscar Wilde

Poet, Playwright

The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

Terrorism - Wellness

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Eric Hoffer

Historian, Writer, Philosopher

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Death - Terrorism

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Lecturer, Philosopher, Poet

The two terrors that discourage creativity and creative living are fear of public opinion and undue reverence for one's own consistency.

Creativity - Discouragement - Terrorism

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Bertrand Russell

Philosopher, Writer, Activist

I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive. I am not young, and I love life. But I should scorn to shiver with terror at the thought of annihilation. Happiness is nonetheless true happiness because it must come to an end, nor do thought and love lose their value because they are not everlasting.

Belief - Death - End - Loss - Terrorism - Value

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George Santayana

Philosopher, Writer, Poet

The universe, as far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine.... If we dramatize its life and conceive its spirit, we are filled with wonder, terror and amusement, so magnificent is the spirit.

Amusement - Engineering - Spirits - Terrorism - Universe - Wonder - World

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Thomas Merton

Monk, Writer, Theologian, Mystic, Poet, Social Activist

The primordial blessing, 'increase and multiply', has suddenly become a hemorrhage of terror. We are numbered in billions, and massed together, marshalled, numbered, marched here and there, taxed, drilled, armed, worked to the point of insensibility, dazed by information, drugged by entertainment, surfeited with everything, nauseated with the human race and with ourselves, nauseated with life.

Human - Terrorism

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Swami Vivekananda

Philosopher, Clergyman, Author

Stick to God! Who cares what comes to the body or to anything else! Through the terrors of evil, say-my God, my love! Through the pangs of death, say-my God, my love! Through all the evils under the sun, say-my God, my love! Thou art here, I see Thee. Thou art with me, I feel Thee. I am Thine, take me. I am not of the world's but Thine, leave not then me.

Art - Care - Feelings - Terrorism - World

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Carl Jung

Psychiatrist, Psychoanalist, Founder of Analytical Psychology

Whenever justice is uncertain and police spying and terror are at work, human beings fall into isolation, which, of course, is the aim and purpose of the dictator state, since it is based on the greatest possible accumulation of depotentiated social units.

Accumulate - Aiming - Dictatorship - Fall - Human - Judging - State - Terrorism

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Eric Hoffer

Historian, Writer, Philosopher

It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

Fear - Power - Terrorism

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Tacitus

Actress, Historian, Historian

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Fear - Feelings - Frightening - Man - Terrorism

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Ambrose Bierce

Writer, Journalist, Soldier

FRYING-PAN, n. One part of the penal apparatus employed in that punitive institution, a woman's kitchen. The frying-pan was invented by Calvin, and by him used in cooking span-long infants that had died without baptism; and observing one day the horrible torment of a tramp who had incautiously pulled a fried babe from the waste-dump and devoured it, it occurred to the great divine to rob death of its terrors by introducing the frying-pan into every household in Geneva. Thence it spread to all corners of the world, and has been of invaluable assistance in the propagation of his sombre faith.

Death - Employment - Observation - Someday - Terrorism

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Director, Philosopher, Philosopher

Usurpers always bring about or select troublous times to get passed, under cover of the public terror, destructive laws, which the people would never adopt in cold blood. The moment chosen is one of the surest means of distinguishing the work of the legislator from that of the tyrant.

Destructiveness - Law - Legislature - Meaning - People - Selecting - Terrorism

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William Shakespeare

Poet, Playwright, Actor

I that please some, try all, both joy and terror Of good and bad, that makes and unfolds error.

Pleasure - Terrorism - Trial

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Edward Abbey

Artist, Author, Author

The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chain saws.

Terrorism

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Lecturer, Philosopher, Poet

Examples are cited by soldiers, of men who have seen the cannon pointed, and the fire given to it, and who have stepped aside from he path of the ball. The terrors of the storm are chiefly confined to the parlour and the cabin.

Confinement - Giving - Man - Terrorism

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Karl Marx

Philosopher, Economist, Political Theorist, Social Revolutionary

We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.

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Gilbert K. Chesterton

Writer, Writer

Exactly what the fairy tale does is this: it accustoms him for a series of clear pictures to the idea that these limitless terrors had a limit, that these shapeless enemies have enemies in the knights of God, that there is something in the universe more mystical than darkness, and stronger than strong fear.

Children - Enemy - Limits - Mysticism - Strength - Terrorism - Universe

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Noam Chomsky

Linguist, Philosopher, Cognitive Scientist, Social Critic, Political Activist

The level of destruction and terror and violence carried out by the powerful states far exceeds anything that can imaginably can be done by groups that are called terrorists and subnational groups.

Destructiveness - State - Terrorism

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