Peter Hitchens Quotes

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

Terrorism always has the advantage of surprise.

The purpose of terrorism is to terrorize.

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

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.

Fear works. It is more effective than any drug, tactic, or torture device.

Terror is the order of the day.

Terrorize your enemy!

Terrorism is a strategy of provocation.

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

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.

The most dangerous person is the fearful; he is the most to be feared.

His body rigid with terror as he waited for the savages to something horrible to him—bash his head with clubs, or stab him with spears, or… …or tap him on the shoulder.

This death cult has no reason and is beyond negotiation. This is what makes it so frightening. This is what causes so many to engage in a sort of mental diversion. They don't want to confront this horror. So they rush off in search of more comprehensible things to hate.

The worst thing that can happen to you in travel is having a gun pointed at you by a very young person. That's happened to me maybe four times in my life. I didn't like it.

I can scare myself like a pro.

Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

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

The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness.

Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.

The whole purpose of those attacks was to drive those contractors out. Lots of them had to leave. They were terrified.

We will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve.

He attacked defenseless peoples in order to strike terror in others.

Fear does not have to be real to be powerful.

Staring down the barrel of a gun is the scariest thing you could ever experience. It's not funny. It's not for the movies.