Conception Quote by John Mortimer

The war against terrorism is terrorism.

— Woody Harrelson

The catch-all phrase "the war on terrorism", in all honesty, has no more meaning than if one wants to wage a war against "criminal…

— Ron Paul

Since war itself is the most extreme form of terrorism, a war on terrorism is profoundly self-contradictory.

— Howard Zinn

There's no such thing as a war against terrorism. It's idiotic. These are slogans. These are lies. It's advertising, which is the only art…

— Gore Vidal

The war against terrorism is terrorism. The whole thing is just bullshit.

— Woody Harrelson

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

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

War is terrorism ... Terrorism is the willingness to kill large numbers of people for some presumably good cause. That's what terrorists are about.

— Howard Zinn

War on terror' is a misnomer. It would be like calling America's involvement in World War II a 'war on kamikazism.' Terrorism, like kamikazism,…

— Dinesh D'Souza

"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

There is no war on terrorism; it is the great game speeded up. The difference is the rampant nature of the superpower, ensuring infinite…

— John Pilger

Terrorism needs to be fought against and certainly delegitimized or attacked, but some of the underlying grievances that might in fact lead individuals astray…

— John O. Brennan