Terror Quotes

Maliki saw Islamic State as a way to exert pressure. If I am not re-elected, terror will befall you – that was his message.

Fortunate is he whose mind has the power to probe the causes of things and trample underfoot all terrors and inexorable fate.

As a rule, dictatorships guarantee safe streets and terror of the doorbell. In democracy the streets may be unsafe after dark, but the most likely visitor in the early hours will be the milkman.

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

The frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.

Terrorism, to me, is the use of terror for political purpose.

If a woman does not fit the shape of what you think a woman should, if a woman is not obedient, does not see things the way you do, if a woman is too independent to need anything more than herself, does she automatically become a threat filled with such terror to you?

Food for her is not food, it is terror, dignity, gratitude, vengeance, joyfulness, humiliation, religion, history, and, of course, love. As if the fruit she always offered us were picked from the destroyed brances of out family tree.

And terror is indiscriminate murder of civilians to make a political point.

We see daily that our lives are terrible and little, without continuity, buyable and salable at any moment, mere blips on a screen, that this is the way we live now. Memory marketed as nostalgia; terror reduced to mere suspense, to melodrama.