Alain Badiou Quotes

The bomb-throwers have discredited the cause of freedom, in whose name they threw the bombs.

Terrorists have goals beyond their supposed pacts with God. They are authors, too.

Terrorism is the intentional use of, or threat to use violence against civilians or against civilian targets, in order to attain political aims.

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

A terrorist is someone who has a bomb, but doesn't have an air force.

Terrorism is not a cause; it is a crime.

I am concerned about any form of violent extremism.

International terrorists who pursue completely mad objectives such as establishing a world caliphate or something of the sort, are quite adept at disguising their real aims as a struggle for independence in Chechnya.

Using terrorism or jihadists or extremists for any political agenda is immoral.

Islamic terrorists are new examples of an old problem with fascism.

Terrorism is simply the weapon by which the weak engage the strong.

Terrorism emanates from weakness, not strength. It is the sign of despair.

This too is a jihad. Yet we Americans find ourselves in the dangerous position of going to war not against a state but against a phantom. The jihad we have embarked upon is targeting an elusive and protean enemy. The battle we have begun is never-ending. But it may be too late to wind back the heady rhetoric. We have embarked on a campaign as quixotic as the one mounted to destroy us.

Death is only a byproduct of terrorism.

ISIS is on its way to defeat but terrorism threat persists.

Terrorism': the word that means nothing, yet justifies everything.

Terrorism: deadly violence against humans and other living things, usually conducted by government against its own people.

You can't differentiate between an Islamic terrorist and a Christian terrorist. Or a politically motivated terrorist who's anti-abortion or someone who may have differing views.

There needs to be a thorough examination, by Muslims everywhere, of why it is that the faith they love breeds so many violent mutant strains.

The terrorists believe that free societies are essentially corrupt and decadent and, with a few hard blows, they can force us to retreat. They are mistaken.

They’re nothing more than domestic terrorists.

ISIS is a radical jihadist group that is increasingly sophisticated in its ability, for example, to radicalize American citizens, in its inability to exploit loopholes in our legal immigration system, in its ability to capture and hold territory in the Middle East, as I outlined earlier, in multiple countries.

There are personal reasons, psychological reasons, but there could also be political reasons for becoming a terrorist.

Radical Islamists are serious about killing in pursuit of their extreme objectives. Releasing their soldiers can only embolden them to take more Americans hostage. The deal for Sgt. Bergdahl may well turn out to have been a bargain with the devil.

Military strikes on Afghanistan will not prevent something this terrible from happening again, for the simple reason that bombs will not deter people who are unafraid of death and desire martyrdom.