Justification Quote by Tariq Ali

Looked at objectively, it is clear that the overwhelming majority of civilian deaths resulting from political violence are produced by what should be understood…

— Richard A. Falk

There is no good terror and bad terror. Terror is terror. There's not terror that you can accept and terror that you cannot accept.…

— Ariel Sharon

Terror is glamour - not only, but also. I am firmly convinced that there's something like a fascination with death among suicide bombers.

— Salman Rushdie

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

I really believe that carpet-bombing, bombing civilian populations, is a form of terror - it's state terror as opposed to vigilante terrorism.

— Hamza Yusuf

Terror is nothing more than justice, prompt, secure and inflexible.

— Maximilien Robespierre

Terrorism, to me, is the use of terror for political purpose, and terror is indiscriminate murder of civilians to make a political point.

— Al Franken

Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation of virtue; it is less a distinct principle than a natural…

— Maximilien Robespierre

Terror is terror is terror, and it doesn't matter what nationality that terror belongs to.

— Reuven Rivlin

True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and they infiltrate and alter consciousness in…

— Don DeLillo

“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

There are two kinds of terrorism. Rational terrorism such as Palestinian terrorism and apocalyptic terrorism like Sept. 11. You have to distinguish between the two.

— Alan Dershowitz