Andrew Silke Quotes

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

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

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.

All terrorism is theater.

Terrorism is a strategy of provocation.

Terrorists cannot win unless they affect the way we think and act.

The purpose of terrorism is to terrorize.

Terrorist groups always want to believe that they represent a general aggrieved group far larger than they really do.

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.

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

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.

Terrorism, to me, is the use of terror for political purpose, and terror is indiscriminate murder of civilians to make a political point.

Terrorism gets people's attention.

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.

Terrorism seems to be the ugly twin of democracy. We need to learn to live with it because we are vulnerable to it.

Terrorists destroy randomly.

Terrorism always has the advantage of surprise.

Terrorism is a means/a tactic, not an ideological or defined physical enemy

The real damage from terrorist attacks doesn't come from the explosion. The real damage is done after the explosion, by the victims, who repeatedly and determinedly attack themselves, giving over reason in favor of terror... Terrorism is about magnifying one mediagenic act of violence into one hundred billion acts of terrorized authoritarian idiocy.

The point of terrorism is to cause terror, sometimes to further a political goal and sometimes out of sheer hatred. The people terrorists kill are not the targets; they are collateral damage. And blowing up planes, trains, markets or buses is not the goal; those are just tactics. The real targets of terrorism are the rest of us: the billions of us who are not killed but are terrorized because of the killing. The real point of terrorism is not the act itself, but our reaction to the act. And we're doing exactly what the terrorists want.

Terrorism is theater …. Terrorists want a lot of people watching, not a lot of people dead.

What the terrorists want is to scare us and fill us with dread.

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.

Terrorism is not something that is being conducted in dark corners of Pakistan. It's done in broad daylight.

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.