Cory Doctorow Quotes

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

There are many people who live with terrorism every day.

Terrorists cannot win unless they affect the way we think and act.

Fundamentally, terrorism is about public relations.

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.

When I close my eyes, I still see things no one should ever experience: a bright red light, the black cloud soon after, people running in every direction trying desperately to escape - I remember it all.

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

In this county, we had to walk, eat, sleep and love in fear.

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 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.

Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.

Terrorism is contempt for human dignity.

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

Terrorists are not 100 feet tall. Nor do they deserve the abject fear they seek to instill.

The suffering caused by the terrorists is the real torture.

Mordovian prisoners are afraid of their own shadows. They are completely terrified.

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

Terrorism is the enemy of all free people…

He who strikes terror into others is himself in continual fear.

Torture is a very humiliating experience. The goal is not to obtain information but to punish and break you so that you won't do anything against the authorities. You are made an example to others so that they will be too terrified to do anything either.

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

The purpose of terrorism is to terrorize.

Terrorist groups always want to believe that they represent a general aggrieved group far larger than they really do.

Terror is the order of the day.

A totalitarian society makes enormous demands on the courage of men, and a partially totalitarian society makes even greater demands because the general anxiety is greater.