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Andre Malraux1 quote
The sons of torture-victims make good terrorists. — Andre Malraux · 1933Ian McEwan1 quote
I love you... That is what they were all saying down their phones, from the hijacked planes and the burning towers. There is only love, and then oblivion. Love was all they had to set against the hatred of their murderers. — Ian McEwan · 2001Margaret Thatcher1 quote
We must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend. — Margaret Thatcher · 1985Ronald Reagan1 quote
We're especially not going to tolerate these attacks from outlaw states run by the strangest collection of misfits, looney tunes, and squalid criminals since the advent of the Third Reich. — Ronald Reagan · 1985Rudy Giuliani1 quote
The number of casualties will be more than any of us can bear. — Rudy Giuliani · 2001Susan Sontag1 quote
Where is the acknowledgment that this was not a "cowardly" attack on "civilization" or "liberty" or "humanity" or "the free world" but an attack on the world's self-proclaimed superpower, undertaken as a consequence of specific American alliances and actions? — Susan Sontag · 2001