Terrorism proverbs

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◆ How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism?

- Howard Zinn99

◆ Just because I wear black and keep a private journal, that doesn't mean I'm going to blow up the school. Or terrorize mindless cheerleaders, for that matter.

- Kelly Creagh99

◆ 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?

- George Orwell99

◆ One of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror.

- George W. Bush99

◆ How do you defeat terrorism? Don't be terrorized.

- Salman Rushdie99

◆ What really alarms me about President Bush's 'War on Terrorism' is the grammar. How do you wage war on an abstract noun? How is 'Terrorism' going to surrender? It's well known, in philological circles, that it's very hard for abstract nouns to surrender.

- Terry Jones99

◆ What separates us from the animals, what separates us from the chaos, is our ability to mourn people we've never met.

- David Levithan99

◆ Hamas is regularly described as 'Iranian-backed Hamas, which is dedicated to the destruction of Israel.' One will be hard put to find something like 'democratically elected Hamas, which has long been calling for a two-state settlement in accord with the international consensus'—blocked for over 30 years by the US and Israel. All true, but not a useful contribution to the Party Line, hence dispensable.

- Noam Chomsky99

◆ The number of people killed by the sanctions in Iraq is greater than the total number of people killed by all weapons of mass destruction in all of history.

- Noam Chomsky99

◆ People who practice freedom of expression are terrorizing our grammatical way of life.

- Bauvard99

◆ If he is terrorising the terrorists, if he is terrorising America the terrorist [...] I am with him. Every Muslim should be a terrorist.

- Zakir Naik99

◆ The violent subjugation of the Palestinians, Iraqis, and Afghans will only ensure that those who oppose us will increasingly speak to us in the language we speak to them—violence.

- Chris Hedges99

◆ There is no moral difference between a Stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. They both kill innocent people for political reasons.

- Tony Benn99

◆ The President is also captured in a well-worn TV news clip, making a boilerplate response to a question on terrorism and then asking the reporters to watch his drive. Well, that's what you get if you catch the President on a golf course. If Eisenhower had done this, as he often did, it would have been presented as calm statesmanship. If Clinton had done it, as he often did, it would have shown his charm.

- Christopher Hitchens98

◆ McChrystal had organized a jaw-dropping counterterrorism campaign inside Iraq, but the tactical successes did not translate into a strategic victory. This was why counterinsurgency - blanketing the population in safety and winning them over - was necessary.

- Bob Woodward98