Vint Cerf Quotes

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

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

The purpose of terrorism is to terrorize.

Terrorism is a strategy of provocation.

All terrorism is theater.

Terrorism always has the advantage of surprise.

The point of terrorism is to cause terror, sometimes to further a political goal and sometimes out of sheer hatred. The people terrorists kill are not the targets; they are collateral damage. And blowing up planes, trains, markets or buses is not the goal; those are just tactics. The real targets of terrorism are the rest of us: the billions of us who are not killed but are terrorized because of the killing. The real point of terrorism is not the act itself, but our reaction to the act. And we're doing exactly what the terrorists want.

The purpose of terrorism lies not just in the violent act itself. It is in producing terror. It sets out to inflame, to divide, to produce consequences which they then use to justify further terror.

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

When it comes to tyrants, dictators and terrorists, strength and the threat of force is the only language they understand.

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

Fundamentally, terrorism is about public relations.

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

Terror works by surprise.

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

I'm the terrorist, do what I say or I'll terrorize you.

True terrorism, you know, weaponized fear. In defense of ourselves, we're fighting - actively fighting something else. But if you're going to fight terrorism, to me, you fight the root causes of terrorism.

There are many people who live with terrorism every day.

In fact, this is a blackmail of the terrorists at the expense of the suffering of the hostages.

A terrorist network that believes a nation so tested will fold under pressure of a few horrific acts may capture its attention, but will not achieve its submission.

Terrorism gets people's attention.

Terrorism seems to be the ugly twin of democracy. We need to learn to live with it because we are vulnerable to it.

Terrorists destroy randomly.

Some people are more terrorist than others.

Like crime, terrorism is a fact of life. I grew up in Israel, where every unattended bag was a suspected bomb; when my family moved for a few years, it was to London in the early years of 'the Troubles.'