Both terrorism and insurance sell fear — and business is business

Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it.

I smelled war on the horizon, with more deaths and trouble to come” Bombing of the Twin TowersFrom Rape of a Nation by Sara Niles

Just above our terror, the stars painted this storyin perfect silver calligraphy. And our souls, too oftenabused by ignorance, covered our eyes with mercy.

If we stopped calling it profiling and started calling it “proactive intelligence screening” or “high alert detecting”, people would be saying “Well, it’s about time”.

Are you okay, man?””Yeah, I’m good.”It’s a lie. I wonder if I will ever be good again.

Such states need to engage with us against terrorism,

There are many ways to honor America. This book is mine. I have completed this journey of self-education in the belief that the most terrifying possibility since 9/11 has not been terrorism–as frightening as that...

read thousands of books and I will power myself with knowledge. Pens and books are the weapons that defeat terrorism.

Rich Indians typically tried to work around a dysfunctional government. Private security was hired, city water was filtered, private school tuitions were paid. Such choices had evolved over the years into a principle: The best...

The line has got to be drawn in relation to things that might cause acts of terrorism; it’s not necessarily a proven link – if the risk is high enough,

It seems that Russia today—dominated by, and accustomed to, autocracy and empire, and lacking strong civic institutions especially after the shattering of its society by the Bolshevik Terror—is destined to be ruled by self-promoting cliques...

This should be a wake-up call for our government. We’ve got to get back to thinking about those things and not totally go off on terrorism and terrorist issues. The pendulum has swung so far...

proves once again how little is being done by the Palestinians to stop terrorism against us. We will not tolerate a continuation of a campaign of violence against our people.

Terrorism isn’t a crime against people or property. It’s a crime against our minds, using the death of innocents and destruction of property to make us fearful. Terrorists use the media to magnify their actions...

We’re never going to be able to get rid of terrorism, because there is always going to be evil in the world.

Let’s have some precision in language here: terrorism means deadly violence — for a political and/or economical purpose — carried out against people and other living things, and is usually conducted by governments against their...

It is just not enough to strengthen the secret services for the fight against terrorism but it’s also necessary to advance dialogue between cultures,

I condemn everyone and anyone who commits acts of terrorism. And Hamas has committed acts of terrorism.

An act of terrorismis not an ideology,nor religion.It is the lack of hope,of opportunityand of love.When there is no recourse,no other waythere is only insurrection.Understanding, compassionand respect for all lifeis what will save us all.

How could you have a war on terrorism when war is terrorism?

I’m sure the driver was a great guy and all he wanted was to drive me to my hotel—but he was a complete stranger to me and the truth is that being vigilant isn’t a...

I’m in my classroom and I’m looking at this girl, but all I can see is my dad on the ground, in front of The Wall, telling the truth, finally—his knees drawn and his chest...

Ask a deeply religious Christian if he’d rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how...

DB: There’s a lot of talk about terrorism. In fact, it’s become almost an obsession for the media in the United States. But it’s a very narrow definition of terrorism.AR: Yes. It completely ignores the...

Suppose that we agree that the two atrocities can or may be mentioned in the same breath. Why should we do so? I wrote at the time (The Nation, October 5, 1998) that Osama bin...

a tremendous fighter and a tremendous ally in the war on terrorism.

What if I got hit by lightning while walking with an umbrella? Ban umbrellas! Fight the menace of lightning!

Der rechtsstaatliche Katalog ist schön und gut, aber nur, solange er die Bekämpfung des Terrorismus nicht behindert.

The idea that a dysfunctional thought could take root in a vacuum, the individual anonymous and wraithlike, unknowable because, especially at first, he or she had no interaction with other people. Because more and more...

We condemn all acts of terrorism and I think such wanton targeting of civilians should be condemned in the strongest possible terms.

Hamas is regularly described as ‘Iranian-backed Hamas, which is dedicated to the destruction of Israel.’ One will be hard put to find something like ‘democratically elected Hamas, which has long been calling for a two-state...

We all lose people. We all have to live in the aftermath. It’s how we move forward that counts, but sometimes we are tethered to something in our past that won’t let us move forward.

Ahead in the distance we could see the main gate, but there was a sea of cars, none moving, people standing, milling around, waiting nervously, perhaps fearfully, as heavily armed MPs and military working dogs...

The [Israelis] believed – they were possessed of an absolute certainty and conviction – that ‘terrorists’ were in Chatila. How could I explain to them that the terrorists had left, that the terrorists had worn...

Perhaps worse still is what liberal societies might do to themselves in the face of this new and different threat [of terrorism]. They begin, by small but dangerous increments, to cease to be as liberal...

And then, on September 11, the world fractured.It’s beyond my skill as a writer to capture that day and the days that would follow–the planes, like specters, vanishing into steel and glass; the slow-motion cascade...

Terrorism works better as a tactic for dictatorships, or for would-be dictators, than for revolutionaries.

Humanity should be our Religion and every Human should be our God, This world should be our Temple and doing good to fellow Humans should be our Prayer.Quran Bible and Bhagwad Geeta all have this...

The door suddenly opened. A leggy young brunette took two steps into the office and stopped short. Her brown eyes widened, she hastily excused herself and turned to leave. Pérez’s jaw dropped as he looked...

With guns you can kill terrorists, with education you can kill terrorism.

Critical to the fight against global terrorism is an ability to move beyond presuppositions and stereotypes in our attitudes and policies and to form partnerships that transcend an “us” and “them” view of the world....

[…] I stated to them among other things that no country inflicts death so readily upon the inhabitants of other countries, frightens so many people so far away, as America.

The murky world of terrorism is more relevant than ever today: terrorist organizations, whether Bolshevik at the beginning of the twentieth century or Jihadi at the start of the twenty-first, have much in common.

Teaching isn’t rocket science. It’s about being engaged, listening, paying attention. Despite conventional wisdom, you don’t need to talk a lot to teach well. You do need to care, though. Not so much about what...

I think the nation’s been challenged to make sure that everybody participates in winning the war on terrorism.

The line between patriot and terrorist is drawn by the historian.

Take terrorism, one example among the methods used in that struggle. We know that leftist tradition condemns terrorism and political assassination. When the colonized uses them, the leftist colonizer becomes unbearably embarrassed. He makes an...

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our” side.