“How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism?”
“How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.”
Source: Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002
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“In defeating terror, Israel’s cause is our cause.”
Hanukkah dinner speech at Yeshiva University (December 2005)
Senate years (2001 – January 19, 2007)
“How can Blair fight a war on terror? Terror is not an ideology or an army; terror is a technique.”
Interview with Jasper Gerard, "Taking the fight to the dreary people" http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2092-1806962,00.html The Sunday Times (London)
2000s
“Abandoning open society for fear of terrorism is the only way to be defeated by it.”
2016
Source: Twitter, February 9, 2016 https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/697077569250787328
“Terrorism sees, in the prosperity of the Afghan people, its ultimate defeat.”
Address to Canadian Parliament https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Karzai%27s_address_to_Canadian_Parliament (September 22, 2006)
2006
“It's only terrorism if they do it to us. When we do much worse to them, it's not terrorism.”
Source: Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda
“The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before being defeated.”
L'étude du beau est un duel où l'artiste crie de frayeur avant d'être vaincu.
III: "Le Confiteor de l'artiste" http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Petits_Po%C3%A8mes_en_prose_-_III._Le_Confiteor_de_l%27artiste
Le Spleen de Paris (1862)
Source: Twenty Prose Poems
“The Empire Pool” Conclave: A Journal of Character, Issue 5, (Spring, 2013)
2010-
“Terror, terror, terror. Life was a reign o terror in the shadow of the guillotine.”
The Devil and Miss Prym [O Demônio e a srta Prym] (2000), p. 86.
“Love can defeat that nameless terror. Loving one another, we take the sting from death.”
Down the River (1982)
Context: Love can defeat that nameless terror. Loving one another, we take the sting from death. Loving our mysterious blue planet, we resolve riddles and dissolve all enigmas in contingent bliss.