Cloudy Quote by Lee Siegel

What the terrorists want is to scare us and fill us with dread.

— Francois Hollande

There's a terrible sense of dread filtering across America at the moment and it's not simply because of the continuing fear of terrorism and…

— Bob Herbert

“Terrorism” is a word that has become a plague on our vocabulary, the excuse and reason and moral permit for state-sponsored violence— our violence—which…

— Robert Fisk

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

What is quite worrisome is the absence of analysis and reflection. Take the word "terrorism." It has become synonymous now with anti-Americanism, which, in…

— Edward Said

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

Terror?often arises from a pervasive sense of disestablishment; that things are in the unmaking.

— Stephen King

A surfeiting of terror soon made terror a cliché.

— Richard Matheson

"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

I think there has been an exaggeration [of the terrorist threat].

— John F. Kerry

Let us never forget that terrorism at its heart, at its evil heart, is a psychological war. It endeavors to break the spirit and…

— Norm Coleman

The evil genius of terrorism is that that maximizes unfamiliarity, imaginability, suffering, scale of destruction, unfairness. It's really important to understand why terrorism is…

— Amanda Ripley