TERRORISM QUOTES

quotations about terrorism Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint. CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS, "Terrorism: Notes Toward a Definition" Fighting terrorism is like being a goalkeeper. You can make a hundred brilliant saves but the only shot that people remember is the one that gets past you. PAUL WILKINSON, London Daily Telegraph, Sep. 1, 1992 When I say that terrorism is war against civilization, I may be met by the objection that terrorists are often idealists pursuing worthy ultimate aims -- national or regional independence, and so forth. I do not accept this argument. I cannot agree that a terrorist can ever be an idealist, or that the objects sought can ever justify terrorism. The impact of terrorism, not merely on individual nations, but on humanity as a whole, is intrinsically evil, necessarily evil and wholly evil. BENJAMIN NETANYAHU, International Terrorism We can't accommodate terrorism. When someone uses the slaughter of innocent people to advance a so-called political cause, at that point the political cause becomes immoral and unjust and they should be eliminated from any serious discussion, any serious debate. RUDOLPH GIULIANI, CNN interview, Sep. 11, 2002 If inciting people to do that [9/11] is terrorism, and if killing those who kill our sons is terrorism, then let history be witness that we are terrorists. OSAMA BIN LADEN, interview, Oct. 2001 Every leader, and every regime, and every movement, and every organization that steps across the line to terrorism must be banished from the discourse of civilized human life. ALAN KEYES, speech, Apr. 21, 2002 I was called a terrorist yesterday, but when I came out of jail, many people embraced me, including my enemies, and that is what I normally tell other people who say those who are struggling for liberation in their country are terrorists. I tell them that I was also a terrorist yesterday, but, today, I am admired by the very people who said I was one. NELSON MANDELA, Larry King Live, May 16, 2000 Terrorism is the price of empire. If you do not wish to pay the price, you must give up the empire. PAT BUCHANAN, Where the Right Went Wrong Terrorism [takes] us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life. JACQUES CHIRAC, speech, Sep. 24, 1986 A "war against terrorism" is an impracticable conception if it means fighting terrorism with terrorism. JOHN MORTIMER, Where There's a Will... We do not create terrorism by fighting the terrorists. We invite terrorism by ignoring them. GEORGE W. BUSH, speech, Dec. 18, 2005 Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism. NOAM CHOMSKY, 9-11 It's not right to respond to terrorism by terrorizing other people. And furthermore, it's not going to help. Then you might say, "Yes, it's terrorizing people, but it's worth doing because it will end terrorism." But how much common sense does it take to know that you cannot end terrorism by indiscriminately dropping bombs? HOWARD ZINN, Terrorism and War