Theodor W. Adorno Quotes

Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon.

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

There are always very angry or very cruel people that attach to movements.

I have great respect for people who are in the front lines and the trenches of trying to enact social change. I am far lazier than that.

Shortly after news of Zarqawi's death reached the media, al-Qaeda stated its intention to continue its oppression of the Iraqi people.

Hoodwink is a product of his environment. He grew up in Belfast, he was part of the UDA and he fought for what he believed in - or was brainwashed into believing - because of the people that surrounded him.

More people are realising that ISIL's not a caliphate. It's a crime ring.

Call me an extremist but killing a few hundred million people seems like the sort of method that might have unintended consequences.

Being hated and hunted and blamed for your own suffering makes people kind of testy, nervous, and on edge, and often fundamentalist and extreme. Bombs get thrown only when people cannot honestly talk together.

The events of September 11 were carried out by people armed not with weapons of mass destruction, but with blades you can buy at a newsagent

There's only two classes of people: terrorists and non-terrorists. Terrorists come in every flavour: there are Buddhist terrorists right now killing Rohingya in Burma! Buddhists! They're not allowed to kill bugs.

Try to reject war and give peace a chance. Question the powers that be and find out why they make the dubious decisions they do that send young people to war.

The lyrics stand today (1980). They're still my feeling about politics. I want to see the plan. I want to know what you're going to do after you've knocked it all down. I mean, can't we use some of it? What's the point of bombing Wall Street? If you want to change the system, change the system. It's no good shooting people.

It [destroying Twin Towers] was a leap into another realm - the realm of crazy abstractions and mythological generalities, involving people who have hijacked Islam for their own purposes. It's important not to fall into that trap and to try to respond with a metaphysical retaliation of some sort.

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?

When people try to stop free speech, stop people from talking, it creates pressure in the system that might cause people to act out.

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.

As long as young people feel they have got no hope but to blow themselves up you are never going to make progress.

No religion is responsible for terrorism. People are responsible for violence and terrorism.

I wouldn't take up arms. I think that might be a little extreme.

Terrorism is in many, many ways the final utterance of voices unheard.

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

Terrorism and war have something in common. They both involve the killing of innocent people to achieve what the killers believe is a good end.

After the bombing, most Iraqis saw what the perpetuators of this attack were trying to do.

I talked to Shailene Woodley the next day [after arrest]. She was fine, and she was very happy. She knew that it brought attention to a cause that she cared very much about. She was in high spirits and knew that was a possibility when she was protesting. The people who arrested her, if they were trying to prove a point of not to protest, they only helped the cause.