Emma Thompson Quotes

War inside countries is all too common.

We all want peace. Unfortunately, there are times when peace must be defended by fighting terror and tyranny.

The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.

Other places are also generators of far-flung violence beyond their own borders - Pakistan and Saudi Arabia are obvious examples - but none has as long a history of war, resistance, and terror as Chechnya.

One of the main purveyors of violence in this world has been this country.

This war on terrorism is going to continue for an indefinite period of time.

The entire world is the front line for terrorism.

There is no doubt that the people of Afghanistan have suffered for a long time. Generations have been lost to terrorism. We empathise with their yearning for peace.

The towers are gone now, reduced to bloody rubble, along with all hopes for Peace in Our Time, in the United States or any other country. Make no mistake about it: We are At War now & with somebody & and we will stay At War with that mysterious Enemy for the rest of our lives.

A war against terrorism is an impracticable conception if it means fighting terrorism with terrorism.

This crusade, this war on terrorism is going to take a while.

It's not a world war yet, but we're at war, because ISIS has declared war on us.

Beyond the futility of armed force, and ultimately more important, is the fact that war in our time inevitably results in the indiscriminate killing of large numbers of people. To put it more bluntly, war is terrorism. That is why a 'war on terrorism' is a contradiction in terms.

And if you look at all this academic work in the conferences and so on there's a constant theme that terrorism is extremely hard to define and we therefore have to have a deep thinking about it. And the reason it's hard to define is quite simple. It's hard to find a definition that includes what they do to us but excludes what we do to them. That's quite difficult. So it takes a global war on terrorism.

We declared war on terror-it's not even a noun, so, good luck.

We've created a more dangerous world. We've created more violence. We've unraveled the fabric of our own society. We've watched everything get worse. We've watched countries be destroyed, and we've watched war become the answer to every question.

Since war itself is the most extreme form of terrorism, a war on terrorism is profoundly self-contradictory.

The war against terrorism will not be finished as long as he [Saddam Hussein] is in power.

War is terrorism ... Terrorism is the willingness to kill large numbers of people for some presumably good cause. That's what terrorists are about.

I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency.

We do not want talk on terror; we want action on it. Terror and talks cannot go together.

In many countries, the authority of the state is weak and openly defied by militias and terrorist groups. In others, state forces themselves act with impunity.

The fight against terror cannot stop as long as terrorism itself is not stopped, but the path of war must change: it must lead directly to terrorists and not be waged on the backs of three million Palestinians.

If you want to conduct terror against Israelis, which is unacceptable, send fighters to do it. Don't send your women and children.

The Cold War, Bosnia and Ukraine remind us that peace is fragile. Iraq and Syria remind us that no society or culture is immune from conflict.