Acts of violence Quote by Richard A. Falk

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

It may be that there is so much ambiguity and ideology attached to the term 'terrorism' that it is best to avoid its use…

— Richard A. Falk

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

There are many terrorist states in the world, but the United States is unusual in that it is officially committed to international terrorism.

— Noam Chomsky

Well, one thing's very clear, that terrorism isn't just a threat which is external to Western countries. It's not simply a foreign menace that…

— Anonymous

We've seen a shift where people were often initially reluctant to call things terrorism until they knew for sure. And now they start out…

— Daniel Byman

What I want to make clear though is that we oppose terrorism in any form. However, any operation against terrorism should be under the…

— Anonymous

The reason that attacks by American terrorists who are not jihadist militants are sometimes not called 'terrorism' is, in part, because in the United…

— Peter Bergen

“In accord with the reigning single standard, the major terrorist atrocities—or worse, aggression—are excluded from the canon of international terrorism.”

— Noam Chomsky

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

How we think about terrorism has to be defined and specific enough that it doesn't lead us to think that any horrible actions that…

— Barack Obama

You know, Obama says we can't use the word "terrorism." We can't use the word "foreign." We can't use any of these provocative words…

— Rush Limbaugh