Absence Quote by Edward Said

An absolutely devastating ridicule of all that is false, primitive, and vicious in current American life: the abuses of power, hero worship, aimless violence,…

— Terry Southern

The trauma of 9/11 stimulated infinite possibilities for worry - some quite plausible, but most inspired by remote what-if fantasies. A society bingeing on…

— William Greider

The terrorist threat is so cloudy, faceless, and vague, so manipulable by political purposes, so definitely present but indefinitely manifested, that it sometimes feels…

— Lee Siegel

It's frustrating; terrorism is rare and largely ineffectual, yet we regularly magnify the effects of both their successes and failures by terrorizing ourselves.

— Bruce Schneier

“Flash forward to the 1980s and 1990s and it is not foreign fascists we have to put out of our minds in order to…

— Barry Glassner

Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism, which we don't want to admit; the loss of the empire…

— James Hillman

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

Criminal and terrorist threats are morphing beyond traditional actors and tactics. We still have to worry about things like an al-Qaida cell plotting a…

— Christopher A. Wray

Our 21st-century world is an incredibly dangerous one. Between brutal civil wars, violent extremism, spreading autocracy, rising inequality, territorial expansionism, election interference, and nuclear…

— Joe Sestak

What concerns me most is the horrible degradation our notions of truth, civility, and decency have undergone. Also the way that language has been…

— George Saunders

Extremists and populist movements are exploiting people's fear of those who are not like us. We can see the consequences in the form of…

— Kjell Magne Bondevik

We live in a world where terror has become a too familiar part of our vocabulary. The terror of 9/11, in which al-Qaeda's attacks…

— Tom Brokaw