Tariq Ali Quotes

Death is only a byproduct of terrorism.

If it acts like a terrorist, if it walks like a terrorist, if it fights like a terrorist, it's a terrorist, right?

Some people are more terrorist than others.

Terrorism and religious extremism are huge challenges. They go hand in glove.

I am concerned about any form of violent extremism.

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.

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.

Terrorism is carried out purposefully, in a cold-blooded, calculated fashion. The declared goals of the terrorist may change from place to place. He supposedly fights to remedy wrongs -- social, religious, national, racial. But for all these problems his only solution is the demolition of the whole structure of society. No partial solution, not even the total redressing of the grievance he complains of, will satisfy him -- until our social system is destroyed or delivered into his hands.

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

They’re nothing more than domestic terrorists.

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

Terrorists and their allies believe the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the American Bill of Rights and every charter of liberty ever written are lies to be burned and destroyed and forgotten.

Terrorism is in many, many ways the final utterance of voices unheard.

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

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

We have no intention of ignoring or appeasing history's latest gang of fanatics trying to murder their way to power.

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

Terrorism is a real despair. These are people for whom life has been so negative that they're willing to die if they can take down some of their enemies.

Violent extremism is going viral, but our response to it is moving at bureaucratic, sluggish speed.

The terrorists may want to try and legitimize their violence by cynically appealing to Islamic motifs or doctrines, but there is no reason the rest of us should help them do it.

Terrorism and extremism bear different names and labels. It uses diverse causes. But in each case, it is driven by distortion of religion and a misguided belief in its power to succeed.

It's my duty to fight those who have chosen to belong to the party of death, those who say they receive their orders from God somewhere and believe they have a duty to set the world on fire to achieve their own salvation.

Tentacles of terrorism spread everywhere

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

Terrorism is the preferred weapon of weak and evil men.