Joseph Conrad Quotes

The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket.

It pains me to learn that things are even worse than is understood… A plot is forming to seize the Capitol on or before the 4th of March…

Terrorists aren’t states; they are martyrs with no address.

The Anarchists set off World War I with a gunshot in Sarajevo - but they faded away. It wasn't that the police drove them out of business. The ideology had nowhere to go except into permanent negativity.

Do you call the people in Los Angeles in the nineties - do you call them rebels or opposition ? They are rebels. They are not rebels even, they are beheading. This opposition, opposing country or government, by beheading ? By barbecuing heads ? By eating the hearts of your victim ? Is that opposition ? What do you call the people who attacked the two towers on the 11th of September ? Opposition ? Even if they're not Americans, I know this, but some of them I think have nationality - I think one of them has American nationality. Do you call him opposition or terrorist ?

Insurrection, never so necessary, is a most sad necessity; and governors who wait for that to instruct them are surely getting into the fatalest course.

ISIS is on its way to defeat but terrorism threat persists.

The terrorists believe that free societies are essentially corrupt and decadent and, with a few hard blows, they can force us to retreat. They are mistaken.

They are fuelled by an ideology that itself is non-negotiable and forms a continuum that links peaceful, law-abiding but nevertheless intensely ideological Muslims at one end and murderous jihadists at the other.

I witnessed a lot of violence, and I found myself asking the question: Do you ever use violence to try to bring about political change?

I think that rebellions arise out of anger, and they're very short-lived.

On one side the government, the other side the mob.

Jihad and the rifle alone. NO negotiations, NO conferences and NO dialogue

Only one more indispensable massacre of Capitalists or Communists or Fascists or Christians or Heretics, and there we are in the Golden Future.

We declared war on terror-it's not even a noun, so, good luck.

Military strikes on Afghanistan will not prevent something this terrible from happening again, for the simple reason that bombs will not deter people who are unafraid of death and desire martyrdom.

Why does any martyr cooperate with his judases?...We see a game beyond the endgame...As Seneca warned Nero: No matter how many of us you kill, you will never kill your successor.

It is an ideology born out of hatred and its adherents belong to no religion, culture or civilisation.

I plead - that it's very difficult when you deal with - ISIS and organizations like that whose - whose behavior is so barbaric and so vicious - that it doesn't seem to have any purpose other than lust for killing and power. And that's very difficult to put ourselves in other shoes.

I'm not an anarchist. I'm not saying, "Burn it to the ground."

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

We've had mass shootings in the United States in the part of violent antiabortion protesters, in the part of violent pro-ISIS militants. The trick and the trap and the horror is not faith, Scott. I don't think the trap and the horror is fanaticism.

A government which uses force to maintain its rule teaches the oppressed to use force to oppose it.

Terror breeds terror. I am completely opposed to both state terror and those who respond in a similar way. There is no justification for any group that associates itself with the Left to kill innocents and encourage suicide bombings.

A fanatic's willingness to kill or be killed in the service of a cause cannot prove the rightness of that cause.