The Agronomist - Quotes

 Jean Dominique:
Clearly our silence and restraint irritated Dany Toussaint, and perhaps his masters. The mistake of Dany Toussaint was to think that a bit of terrorism on the part of street thugs would give access to our microphone. If they keep trying to use these screamers in front of Radio Haiti Inter to shut down the Delmas Road, he will break his teeth! The microphone of Radio Haiti will stay closed to him! Yeah I know that he has weapons! And that he has money to pay and arm his henchmen. Here I have no weapons other than my journalism, my microphone and my unquenchable faith as a militant for true change! If Dany Toussaint tries anything else against me or the radio and I am still alive, I will close the place down after I have denounced his maneuvers once more, and I will return to exile with my family. I close with Shakespeare: 'The truth will always make the devil's face blush!'
 

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Saw VI - Quotes

 Jigsaw:
Hello, William. Before you are six of your most valuable associates. The ones who find errors in policies. Their findings result in over two-thirds of all applications denied or prematurely terminated. Now you must apply your analysis to them. And will you be able to find their errors? Six ride the carousel, but only two can get off. The decision of which two survive falls upon you. But remember, the mounted gun will continue to fire until all six rounds are spent. And if no decision is made on your part, all six will perish. To offer the two reprieves, you must press both buttons at once in the box before you. However, in doing so, you will give a sacrifice of your own. Two can live, four will die. Your decisions symbolized by the blood on your hands.
 

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Without a Trace - Quotes

 
[Jack brings in the Joint Terrorism Task Force in about the Arabic doctor]
Samantha:
Jack, I, um... I think you're making a mistake. I think... that you have jumped the gun bringing in JTTF.
Jack Malone:
Yeah, well, that's my call.
Samantha:
You're right, it is your call. But just... think about it. I mean, after this investigation, do you think Anwar will be able to get a job in his field? Forget the CDC. He'll be lucky if the INS renews his VISA.
Jack Malone:
It's not my problem. Look, if any of this is making you uncomfortable I can transfer you to another case.
Samantha:
[coldly] No. I can manage.
 

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I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell - Quotes

 Drew:
Oh, I'm onto your game, De Nils. Diamonds are worthless other than the value attached to them by the silly tramps you have brain washed into thinking that diamonds equal love. Guess what, sluts? Your quest for the perfect princess cut supports terrorism and genocide. Congratulations, your avarice has managed to destroy an entire continent!
 

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George Orwell - Quotes

 The object of terrorism is terrorism. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture is torture. The object of murder is murder. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me? 

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Kurt Vonnegut - Quotes

 True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. 

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Christopher Hitchens - Quotes

 Rolf Ekeus came round to my apartment one day and showed me the name of the Iraqi diplomat who had visited the little West African country of Niger: a statelet famous only for its production of yellowcake uranium. The name was Wissam Zahawi. He was the brother of my louche gay part-Kurdish friend, the by-now late Mazen. He was also, or had been at the time of his trip to Niger, Saddam Hussein's ambassador to the Vatican. I expressed incomprehension. What was an envoy to the Holy See doing in Niger? Obviously he was not taking a vacation. Rolf then explained two things to me. The first was that Wissam Zahawi had, when Rolf was at the United Nations, been one of Saddam Hussein's chief envoys for discussions on nuclear matters (this at a time when the Iraqis had functioning reactors). The second was that, during the period of sanctions that followed the Kuwait war, no Western European country had full diplomatic relations with Baghdad. TheVatican was the sole exception, so it was sent a very senior Iraqi envoy to act as a listening post. And this man, a specialist in nuclear matters, had made a discreet side trip to Niger. This was to suggest exactly what most right-thinking people were convinced was not the case: namely that British intelligence was on to something when it said that Saddam had not ceased seeking nuclear materials in Africa.



I published a few columns on this, drawing at one point an angry email from Ambassador Zahawi that very satisfyingly blustered and bluffed on what he'd really been up to. I also received 

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Aldous Huxley - Quotes

 Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations. So that when he acts on his theories, he behaves very often like a lunatic. 

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Ian McEwan - Quotes

 This was when he first suspected that the kindly child-loving God extolled by his headmistress might not exist. As it turned out, most major world events suggested the same. But for Theo 

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Cory Doctorow - Quotes

 It's our goddamed city! It's our goddamed country. No terrorist can take it from us for so long as we're free. Once we're not free, the terrorists win! Take it back! You're young enough and stupid enough not to know that you can't possibly win, so you're the only ones who can lead us to victory! Take it back! 

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Loose Change: Second Edition - Quotes

 Narrator:
1999. NORAD begins conducting exercises in which hijacked airliners are flown into the WTC and the Pentagon.
Narrator:
June, 2000. The Department of Justice releases a terrorism manual with the WTC in crossroads.
 

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Huston Smith - Quotes

 With mind distracted, never thinking,  

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Gustave Flaubert - Quotes

 The more you approach infinity, the deeper you penetrate terror 

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Howard Zinn - Quotes

 How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism? 

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Aaron Sorkin - Quotes

 Everyone 

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Benjamin Netanyahu - Quotes

 We are benefiting from one thing, and that is the attacks on the twin towers and the pentagon and the American struggle in Iraq. These events swung American public opinion in our favor 

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Jesse Ventura - Quotes

 Go to the internet and go to the FBI website and go to their international list of top ten terrorists. You will see Bin Laden there, bring his name up and his picture. Amazingly, all the charges: the embassy of '98 and this other stuff is all listed. But, ironically nothing on 9/11. NOTHING! Now when the FBI was pressed as to why 9/11 wasn't included, their response was  

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George W. Bush - Quotes

 One of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror.  

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Robert Desnos - Quotes

 The stranger was still smiling. He transformed himself into a rose bush and entwined me. My Christian education meant that ever since childhood I have had a horror of vice and it was not without a quite understandable terror that I discerned the pleasure I felt in the embrace of this vigorous bush whose branches gradually mingled with my limbs, my hair and my looks. When one of its flowers came apart in my mouth, I could feel myself grasping the sorcerer in my arms in my turn. He was transformed into a torrent, and I was a barge, into desert and I was smoke, into a car and I was a road, into a man and I was a woman. 'What we are doing is very wrong,' he said and was off. 

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Pat Buchanan - Quotes

 Islamic killers are over here because we are over there. 

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Bram Stoker - Quotes

 Yo soy Dr 

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Hosni Mubarak - Quotes

 An honest observer of the evolution of conditions in Egypt would discover that terrorism is an alien phenomenon, strange to our values and heritage. 

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Terry Pratchett - Quotes

 Contrary to popular belief and hope, people don't usually come running when they hear a scream. That's not how humans work. Humans look at other humans and say, 'Did you hear a scream?' because the first scream might have been you screaming inside your head, or a horse backfiring. 

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Christopher Hitchens - Quotes

 the bombers of Manhattan represent fascism with an Islamic face. . . . What they abominate about  

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Pat Buchanan - Quotes

 Empire breeds terrorism. 

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Scott Adams - Quotes

 Ask a deeply religious Christian if he 

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Dean Koontz - Quotes

 She was reduced to the dependency of an infant, too terrified of life itself to find solace anywhere but in the familiar succoring breast and in the sound of that same heartbeat remembered from the womb. 

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Terry Jones - Quotes

 What really alarms me about President Bush's 'War on Terrorism' is the grammar. How do you wage war on an abstract noun? How is 'Terrorism' going to surrender? It's well known, in philological circles, that it's very hard for abstract nouns to surrender. 

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Bertolt Brecht - Quotes

 The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error. 

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Jean Lorrain - Quotes

 It is the sheer ugliness and banality of everyday life which turns my blood to ice and makes me cringe in terror. 

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Rainer Maria Rilke - Quotes

 But not you, O girl, nor yet his

mother,

stretched his eyebrows so fierce with

expectation.

Not for your mouth, you who hold him

now,

did his lips ripen into these fervent

contours.

Do you really think your quiet

footsteps

could have so convulsed him, you who

move like dawn wind?

True, you startled his heart; but older

terrors

rushed into him with that first jolt

to his emotions.

Call him . . . you'll never quite

retrieve him from those dark consorts.

Yes, he wants to, he escapes; relieved,

he makes a home

in your familiar heart, takes root

there and begins himself anew.

But did he ever begin himself? 

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Robert Goolrick - Quotes

 There is a loveliness to life that does not fade. Even in the terrors of the night, there is a tendency toward grace that does not fail us.  

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George W. Bush - Quotes

 I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon. 

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Mikhail Bulgakov - Quotes

 Kindness. The only possible method when dealing with a living creature. You'll get nowhere with an animal if you use terror, no matter what its level of development may be. That I have maintained, do maintain and always will maintain. People who think you can use terror are quite wrong. No, no, terror is useless, whatever its colour  

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M.J. Croan - Quotes

 The flaw in being civilized is that it permit 

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Christopher Hitchens - Quotes

 Now is as good a time as ever to revisit the history of the Crusades, or the sorry history of partition in Kashmir, or the woes of the Chechens and Kosovars. But the bombers of Manhattan represent fascism with an Islamic face, and there's no point in any euphemism about it. What they abominate about 'the West,' to put it in a phrase, is not what Western liberals don't like and can't defend about their own system, but what they do like about it and must defend: its emancipated women, its scientific inquiry, its separation of religion from the state. Loose talk about chickens coming home to roost is the moral equivalent of the hateful garbage emitted by Falwell and Robertson, and exhibits about the same intellectual content. 

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Francis Bacon - Quotes

 The surest way to prevent seditions...is to take away the matter of them. 

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Rainer Maria Rilke - Quotes

 Beauty is only the start of bearable terror. 

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Greg Mortenson - Quotes

 I don't do what I'm doing to fight terror. ... I do it because I care about kids. Fighting terror is maybe seventh or eighth on my list of priorities. But working over there, I've learned a few things. I've learned that terror doesn't happen because some group of people somewhere like Pakistan or Afghanistan simply decide to hate us. It happens because children aren't being offered a bright enough future that they have a reason to choose life over death. 

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Christopher Hitchens - Quotes

 Since I speak and write about this a good deal, I am often asked at public meetings, in what sometimes seems to me a rather prurient way, whether I myself or my family have 'ever been threatened' by jihadists. My answer is that yes, I have, and so has everyone else in the audience, if they have paid enough attention to the relevant bin-Ladenist broadcasts to notice the fact. 

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Bertrand Russell - Quotes

 Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it. 

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Christopher Hitchens - Quotes

 The United States finds itself with forces of reaction. Do I have to demonstrate this? The Taliban's annihilation of music and culture? The enslavement of women? 

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Christopher Hitchens - Quotes

 [T]his is an enemy for life, as well as an enemy of life. 

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John Perkins - Quotes

 I've never met anyone who wanted to be a terrorist. They are desperate people. 

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Ray Bradbury - Quotes

 It was a simple thing. All terror is a simplicity. ( 

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Alexander Pope - Quotes

 Know then thyself, presume not God to scan,

The proper study of mankind is Man.

Placed on this isthmus of a middle state,

A being darkly wise and rudely great:

With too much knowledge for the Sceptic side,

With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride,

He hangs between, in doubt to act or rest;

In doubt to deem himself a God or Beast;

In doubt his mind or body to prefer;

Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err;

Alike in ignorance, his reason such,

Whether he thinks too little or too much;

Chaos of thought and passion, all confused;

Still by himself abused or disabused;

Created half to rise, and half to fall;

Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all;

Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd;

The glory, jest, and riddle of the world! 

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Arundhati Roy - Quotes

 Have we raised the threshold of horror so high that nothing short of a nuclear strike qualifies as a 'real' war? Are we to spend the rest of our lives in this state of high alert with guns pointed at each other's heads and fingers trembling on the trigger? 

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Al Franken - Quotes

 Mistakes are a part of being human. Precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from. 

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Tony Benn - Quotes

 There is no moral difference between a Stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. They both kill innocent people for political reasons. 

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Cory Doctorow - Quotes

 Funny, for all surveillance, Osama bin Laden is still free—and we're not. Guess who's winning the  

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Irenaeus of Lyons - Quotes

 Error, indeed is never set forth in its naked deformity, lest, being thus exposed, it should at once be detected. But it is craftily decked out in an attractive dress, so as, by its outward form, to make it appear to the inexperienced more true than truth itself. 

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Jeremy Taylor - Quotes

 Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error before an afflicted truth 

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Neil Gaiman - Quotes

 There are some dogs which, when you meet them, remind you that, despite thousands of years of man-made evolution, every dog is still only two meals away from being a wolf. These dogs advance deliberately, purposefully, the wilderness made flesh, their teeth yellow, their breath a-stink, while in the distance their owners witter,  

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