Jean Baudrillard Quotes

The war against terrorism is terrorism. The whole thing is just bullshit.

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.

The objective of a terrorist is to create political change in the society he targets.

I've been interested in terrorism from the very beginning. My first novel is about that, too, and I think one reason I've been so interested in terrorism is because I have a deep interest - one of my deepest interests - in image culture and how it works. And terrorism is an epiphenomenon of image culture.

I am concerned about any form of violent extremism.

Terrorism is about magnifying one mediagenic act of violence into one hundred billion acts of terrorized authoritarian idiocy.

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

First of all, radical beliefs are not a predictor of terrorist behavior: most people who hold radical beliefs never become terrorists, and some terrorists don't hold radical beliefs.

Any time you have someone's first-hand account of the sheer terror that ISIS can provoke... that's powerful.

Terrorism must never be tolerated for any reason and we resolutely condemn it.

Terrorism is not a small problem.

Our party never tolerated those who use violence for political ends. Our leaders lost their lives standing against terrorism.

The terrorist isn't a problem because he doesn't conform; he's a problem because he does. It's what he conforms to that makes him dangerous.

If we are to rid ourselves of terrorism, we will have to genuinely believe that attempts to distinguish between 'good' and 'bad' terrorists are misleading.

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

We condemn all shades and hues of terrorism and militancy and want to cooperate with India to fight this menace.

Terrorism is not something that is being conducted in dark corners of Pakistan. It's done in broad daylight.

Terrorists are everywhere and, emphatically, not only in Iraq.

One of the reasons why Gadafy's dictatorship has managed to remain in power for so long is not just because it has shown itself to be able to exact a great deal of violence, both psychological and physical, on its people, but because it has been very successful at imposing a narrative, a story.

Whoever gives in to terrorism has to be prepared to do so many times.

Because European countries now resolve differences through negotiation and consensus, there's sometimes an assumption that the entire world functions in the same way. But let us never forget ... beyond Europe's borders, in a world where oppression and violence are very real, liberation is still a moral goal, and freedom and security still need defenders.

The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.

A war against terrorism is an impracticable conception if it means fighting terrorism with terrorism.

We have had a lot of problems where you look at San Bernardino, you look at Orlando, you look at the World Trade Center, you look at so many different things.

Terrorists and murderers are so dangerous. We shouldn't fall victim to believe that they are immune.