Don DeLillo Quotes

But there's one thing we must all be clear about: terrorism is not the pursuit of legitimate goals by some sort of illegitimate means. Whatever the murderers may be trying to achieve, creating a better world certainly isn't one of their goals. Instead they are out to murder innocent people.

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 [...] Our politicians help the terrorists every time they use fear as a campaign tactic. The press helps every time it writes scare stories about the plot and the threat. And if we're terrified, and we share that fear, we help.

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.

All terrorism is theater.

Al Qaeda's message that violence, terrorism and extremism are the only answer for Arabs seeking dignity and hope is being rejected each day in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Bahrain and throughout the Arab lands.

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

Of course, violence will not end with our combat mission. Extremists will continue to set off bombs, attack Iraqi civilians and try to spark sectarian strife. But ultimately, these terrorists will fail to achieve their goals.

Any terrorism is an attack on libertarian values.

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

The attacks in Jordan, just like those before it in Indonesia, Egypt, Spain and the United States, demonstrate that terrorism does not discriminate by race, ethnicity or region. Instead, terrorists indiscriminately target those seeking to live a peaceful, loving and free life.

Terrorism will spill over if you don't speak up.

They are being exploited by terrorists.

When 50 people come to a demonstration, they are faced by 1,000 soldiers. A demonstration of 5,000 people will be faced by 25,000 soldiers. I fear that blood be shed for no price. I want blood that is shed for a price.

The success of terrorism anywhere breeds terrorism everywhere.

Democracies cannot be intimidated by terrorism.

Terrorism always has the advantage of surprise.

If a people bent on violence and terrorism have free elections, they will elect leaders bent on violence and terrorism.

Terrorism is to be used toward an end. It is not an end in itself.

Terrorism and its executioners have their own agenda, entirely independent of the popular will, of democratic considerations or institutions, or of the aspirations and desires of the community they claim to represent. They are defeated, not by the operation of some mystical force called ‘popular will’, but by the force of arms. Their activities are not some convenient substitute for the ballot box; they are an absolute rejection of every value integral to democracy.

Terrorism is theater …. Terrorists want a lot of people watching, not a lot of people dead.

Terrorism is a strategy of provocation.

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

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

Those who begin by burning books will end by burning people.

You know what they say: When people start burning books they'll soon burn human beings.