Quote by Noam Chomsky

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

It would not be desirable to include 'terrorism' among international crimes subject to International Criminal Court jurisdiction if defined to apply only to anti-state…

— Richard A. Falk

“The whole point of international terrorism is to shock the world with the most horrific spectacle imaginable.”

— Steven Pinker

“How, then, do terrorists manage to dominate the headlines and change the political situation throughout the world? By provoking their enemies to overreact. In…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“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

“Not surprisingly, the all-powerful evocation of terrorism is reserved only for those acts that threaten the government-sponsored status quo, but not that perpetrated by…

— Henry A. Giroux

“Terrorism has no rules except to effect terror. And that is why I wrote the book I did, based on experience and what I…

— Bill Granger

“Critical to the fight against global terrorism is an ability to move beyond presuppositions and stereotypes in our attitudes and policies and to form…

— John L. Esposito

“The war against terror is not really about terror. It's about a superpower's self-destructive impulse toward supremacy, stranglehold, global hemegony.”

— Arundhati Roy

“When 'all is permitted' in the fight against terror, a counter-terrorist starts to become indistinguishable from the initial terrorist.”

— Tzvetan Todorov

“Terrorism is both a global political problem and an internal psychological mechanism.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“terrorism n. Violence for political purposes or the politically motivated threat of violence which, either intentionally or unintentionally, challenges the state's monopoly on political…

— Leslie Starr O'Hara