William Gibson Quotes

In the Middle East, the opposition is quite different than the opposition in advanced countries. In our countries, the opposition takes the form of explosions, assassinations, killings.

How is it possible to have a civil war?

When Ukrainians kill Ukrainians, I believe this is as close to a civil war as you can get.

I grew up in Punjab when terrorism was at its peak.

I'm far from believing that we've solved the problem of violence in the 20th century and that's why I'm not discouraged that we still have the Biafras and the Northern Irelands and the East Pakistans and, for that matter, violence in American or Canadian cities.

All you would hear every night on the news was that somebody had been shot dead in a certain part of Belfast. We lived opposite a judge, and there were always soldiers crouched down in our garden. We'd sit and talk to them, and I even used to sing to them!

I never call it an insurgency. I call it terrorism.

And the separatist terrorist organization, PKK, had easy access to Turkey to, inside Turkey.

I was born the year the Troubles began, in 1968. That world of violence was all I knew - people murdered, maimed, kneecapped, bombed. I don't remember a time without a major atrocity of some kind every week.

If India wants her bloodbath, she shall have it.

Terrorism often finds a home in states mired in civil war …

The word 'insurgency' had connotations that really sent a shiver down the spine of folks in Washington, in the United States - for good reason, because it means this is something much bigger than just a few terrorist cells.

The work in Iraq is difficult and it is dangerous. Like most Americans, I see the images of violence and bloodshed. Every picture is horrifying, and the suffering is real.

The United States of America is engaged in a war against an extremist group of folks.

There is no clear or meaningful difference between insurgency and civil war, or between national terrorism and civil war for that matter.

War inside countries is all too common.

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

We think that Kosovo will continue to serve as a centre of violence and regional instability in future.

In principle... no government in the world can accept an armed terrorist group, some of them coming from abroad, controlling streets and villages in the name of 'jihad'.

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

All these people who scream about Kashmir being an armed camp are in fact responsible for keeping it that way.

Iraq is falling apart.

This is a war against terrorists. Not a war against a religion, but a war against terrorists.

The actions of the terrorist organizations, Hezbollah, in Lebanon, and Hamas, in Gaza, against Israel are unconscionable. Instead of working towards peace, these terrorist organizations have chosen to perpetuate the violence.

When you scan the globe's hot spots, every civil war and massacre, every act of terror and every clash between states has its unique local circumstances.