Able Quote by 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

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

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

There is no definition of terrorism and there is still the reality that one person's terrorist is another person's freedom fighter.

— Kumi Naidoo

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

Terrorism is a word with little content - it is a label for brutalities committed by ‘the enemy’, and from which one’s own acts…

— Anonymous

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 metaphor, it's an abstract noun. It's like having a war on dandruff. It's something from advertising, it's meaningless.

— Gore Vidal

It would be easy to define terrorism as attacks against human rights and international humanitarian law forbids attacks against innocent non-combatants which is often…

— Joichi Ito

It may be that there is so much ambiguity and ideology attached to the term 'terrorism' that it is best to avoid its use…

— Richard A. Falk

Terrorism is the intentional use of, or threat to use violence against civilians or against civilian targets, in order to attain political aims.

— Boaz Ganor

The definition of terrorism is killing civilians with the intent of changing their political affiliation.

— Caleb Carr