Joseph Conrad Quotes

I have a lot of enemies: extremists and the Syrian regime.

I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.

They have the marshals, I have the Army.

We intend to remain alive. Our neighbors want to see us dead. This is not a question that leaves much room for compromise.

Terrorism and peace are incompatible.

Even if there is peace with all the Arab states, I don't know if the terrorism against us will pass from this world.

There is a real need to construct a different Middle East. The Middle East must change because the world has changed. And instead of oppositional armies that are fighting usually one against another, now we have a net of terrorists that are trying to destroy everything. They are not two; they are hundreds.

Those who stand on our side in the fight against terrorism are our friend. Those on the opposite side are our enemy.

Iraq is fighting a war against terrorism. We are trying our best to fight them. We are trying our best to fight outlaws in our country.

The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket. Revolution, legality--counter-moves in the same game; forms of idleness at bottom identical.

At the end of the day we want to bring stability and hope to Iraq. That's the only way to defeat terrorism.

Fighting a war on terrorism is like fighting against crime. We can never hope to eradicate crime, so we shouldn't bother fighting it.

The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.

This is a war against terrorists. Not a war against a religion, but a war against terrorists.

What a war in Iraq will not do is bring about peace in the Middle East or end the injustices that feed resentment and breed terrorists.

We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.

It is in middles that extremes clash, where ambiguity restlessly rules.

We're still stymied by the old stand-off between those who wish to fight terrorism and resistance fighters.

The real leaders cannot appear in the peaceful time; nor can the serious opposition emerge from within the peaceful atmosphere. Without an open confrontation, there is no opposition!

And the truth is, those who are terrorists only have to succeed once, and those of us who are trying to build an inclusive society have to succeed every time.

Nothing will ensure war more certainly or entrench rivalries more seriously than for or against thinking!

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

I never call it an insurgency. I call it terrorism.

We will bring justice to the savage terrorists known as Boko Haram. They will be defeated.

Belief systems thrive in circumstances of collision. They are energized by their opposites.