Civilians Quote by Kofi Annan

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

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

Terrorism is the unlawful use of force or violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any…

— Anonymous

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

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

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

Terrorism is a tactic in which the primary objective is to produce fear, rather than direct harm. Terrorist attacks are, first and foremost, psychological…

— Bret Weinstein

"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

Terrorism: deadly violence against humans and other living things, usually conducted by government against its own people.

— Edward Abbey

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

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