Action Quote by Barack Obama

And if you look at all this academic work in the conferences and so on there's a constant theme that terrorism is extremely hard…

— Noam Chomsky

Well, one thing's very clear, that terrorism isn't just a threat which is external to Western countries. It's not simply a foreign menace that…

— Anonymous

Terrorism is not a limited threat, it is a world wide operation. Today, many countries in the east, and in the west, in the…

— Pratibha Patil

What's the definition of terrorism? It's to achieve an objective through the use of force and fear. These are just nasty, evil, disgusting human…

— Tim Kennedy

Despite fearful rhetoric to the contrary, terrorism is not a transcendent threat. A terrorist attack cannot possibly destroy our country's way of life; it's…

— Bruce Schneier

The definition of terrorism has to be more precise, so that we are able to discriminate between, for example, what it is that the…

— Edward Said

So far, the official definitions of terrorism have the role of demonizing the enemies of the United States and Israel, and of sanitizing recourse…

— Richard A. Falk

Most terrorists are people deeply concerned by what they see as social, political, or religious injustice and hypocrisy, and the immediate grounds for their…

— William Blum

The commonly accepted definition of terrorism is that it is politically motivated violence directed at civilians by entities other than a state. These kind…

— Peter Bergen

Terrorism is a psychological warfare. Terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society.

— Patrick J. Kennedy

The reason that attacks by American terrorists who are not jihadist militants are sometimes not called 'terrorism' is, in part, because in the United…

— Peter Bergen

There are two kinds of terrorism. Rational terrorism such as Palestinian terrorism and apocalyptic terrorism like Sept. 11. You have to distinguish between the two.

— Alan Dershowitz