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Terrorism6 quotes
The sons of torture-victims make good terrorists. — Andre Malraux · 1933We'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 · 1985We must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend. — Margaret Thatcher · 1985The number of casualties will be more than any of us can bear. — Rudy Giuliani · 2001Where 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 · 2001I 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 · 2001
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 · 2001I 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 · 2001
9-111 quote
The number of casualties will be more than any of us can bear. — Rudy Giuliani · 2001
Cold War1 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 · 1985
The sons of torture-victims make good terrorists. — Andre Malraux · 1933
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
Politics1 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
Torture1 quote
The sons of torture-victims make good terrorists. — Andre Malraux · 1933