Virginia Foxx Quotes

The purpose of terrorism is to terrorize.

Putting fear into people is the principal goal of terrorists, and they have been successful.

Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.

The uncertainty of the danger belongs to the essence of terrorism.

Terrorism is a strategy of provocation.

All terrorism is theater.

Part of the reason that the government's fear mongering is succeeding is because so many people are so ignorant, that it is easier for government to frighten people in submission.

The purpose behind terrorism is to instill fear in people - the fear that electrical power, for instance, will be taken away or the transportation system will be taken down.

Sometimes fear is used as a way to control.

Terrorism always has the advantage of surprise.

Fundamentally, terrorism is about public relations.

The more pain you inflict on someone, the more they will tell you what they think you want to hear.

What's the definition of terrorism? It's to achieve an objective through the use of force and fear. These are just nasty, evil, disgusting human beings who disrespect human life.

Whoever gives in to terrorism has to be prepared to do so many times.

I think all of us have a sense if we imagine the kind of world we would face if the people who bombed the mess hall in Mosul, or the people who did the bombing in Spain, or the people who attacked the United States in New York, shot down the plane over Pennsylvania and attacked the Pentagon, the people who cut off peoples' heads on television to intimidate, to frighten indeed the word 'terrorized' is just that. Its purpose is to terrorize, to alter behavior, to make people be something other than that which they want to be.

Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death.

True terrorism, you know, weaponized fear. In defense of ourselves, we're fighting - actively fighting something else. But if you're going to fight terrorism, to me, you fight the root causes of terrorism.

The purpose of terrorism lies not just in the violent act itself. It is in producing terror. It sets out to inflame, to divide, to produce consequences which they then use to justify further terror.

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

Our enemy of international terrorism respects no laws of warfare or morality, and its individual members take innocent lives, just to create chaos for news cameras.

Even a faithful mistress can be bent by constant threats.

My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.

The only violence was when these so-called 'freedom fighters' terrorized the poor Africans in the villages... They were told what to do and who to support.

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

Intimidation doesn't last very long.