Alan Wolfe Quotes

The war against terrorism is terrorism.

All terrorism is theater.

In a sense, terrorism blossomed in the advent of television. Television promotes terrorism in religion and in politics.

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.

Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face.

The most difficult idea to reconcile in war is the notion that anything is going to be solved by killing a stranger, or in risking your life for a cause anchored in some distant political arena.

We tend to think about fascism in terms of the Second World War.

The function will be criticized, since there is already talk of a so-called “Cliveden” set which is alleged to be pro-Hitler, but which, in reality, is only pro-Chamberlain and pro-sense.

We seek a logical understanding of mass violence, but war and civil strife rarely explode because of rational grievances. Complaints about oppression, poverty or injustice may serve as superficial catalysts, but few wars can be traced to objective decision-making by the dispassionate leaders of cool-headed populations. War is an act of passion, not of policy.

All efforts to render politics aesthetic culminate in one thing: war.

That's the thing about terrorism - it works. Especially for the terrorists - they might not get what they want but it feels damn good trying.

The war against terrorism is terrorism. The whole thing is just bullshit.

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

For us, terrorism remains the great evil of our time, and the war against this evil, our generation’s great cause … There is no middle way for Americans: it is victory or holocaust.

Politics lives in people, ideas live in people, they live in the concrete struggles that people have.

The propagandistic American 'media' and the crazed neoconservatives have set humanity on the path to destruction.

Terrorists are everywhere and, emphatically, not only in Iraq.

I'm interested in what motivates individuals to participate in atrocious acts to support their ideological identification.

Radicalism and extremism, while they are dangers, they exist in every society on some level.

The terrorists know that the outcome will leave them emboldened or defeated. So they are waging a campaign of murder and destruction. And there is no limit to the innocent lives they are willing to take.

There was in the House only one dissenting vote, from Barbara J. Lee, a Democrat from California, who warned that military action could not guarantee the safety of the country and that 'as we act, let us not become the evil we deplore.

Assassination makes only martyrs, not converts.

I've been in love (truly) with five women, the Spanish Republic and the 4th Infantry Division.

Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles. Government is too serious a matter to admit of meaningless courtesies.

Wars are not all evil, they are part of the grand machinery by which this world is governed.