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I think the War on Terror is really absurd, especially coming from a country that is founded on terrorism.
Alice Walker
War
Terrorism
Country
Think
Absurd
Terror
Coming
Really
Founded
After having dispatched a meal, I went ashore, and found no habitation save a single house, and that without an occupant; we had no doubt that the people had fled in terror at our approach, as the house was completely furnished.
Christopher Columbus
People
Single
Meal
Doubt
Approach
Our
Furnished
No Doubt
Having
Had
House
Without
Terror
After
Ashore
Found
Save
Like the experience of warfare, the endurance of grave or terminal illness involves long periods of tedium and anxiety, punctuated by briefer interludes of stark terror and pain.
Christopher Hitchens
Experience
Anxiety
Long
Pain
Long Periods
Terminal
Like
Involves
Periods
Terror
Endurance
Warfare
Illness
Grave
Stark
Tedium
God bless and help all the victims and patriots of 9/11, from the families of Flight 93 passengers to those who were in the Pentagon and Twin Towers as well as others who have fought and presently fight the war on terror.
Chuck Norris
War
God
Fight
Others
Those
Pentagon
Towers
Bless
Well
Terror
Passengers
Were
God Bless
Families
Patriots
Victims
Flight
Help
Who
Fought
Twin
There is a need to accept a limited disruption of civil liberties in order to penetrate terror.
Ehud Barak
Liberties
Penetrate
Civil
Civil Liberties
Accept
Limited
Terror
Order
Disruption
Need
An alliance of civilisations can be our most powerful weapon in the fight against terror.
Federica Mogherini
Fight
Our
Weapon
Alliance
Powerful
Powerful Weapon
Most
Most Powerful
Terror
Against
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave from the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave.
Francis Scott Key
Out
Could
Footsteps
Gloom
Terror
Blood
Refuge
Pollution
Flight
Washed
Foul
Grave
Slave
Save
On September 11 2001, America felt its vulnerability even to threats that gather on the other side of the Earth. We resolved then, and we are resolved today, to confront every threat from any source that could bring sudden terror and suffering to America.
George W. Bush
Today
Suffering
September
Every
Resolved
Other
Side
Earth
Threat
Threats
Could
Vulnerability
Felt
Terror
Source
America
Any
Confront
Then
Even
Sudden
Bring
Gather
Cosmic terror appears as an ingredient of the earliest folklore of all races and is crystallised in the most archaic ballads, chronicles, and sacred writings.
H. P. Lovecraft
All Races
Folklore
Archaic
Cosmic
Sacred
Writings
Most
Terror
Ballads
Races
Ingredient
Appears
Earliest
The amount of death terror experienced is closely related to the amount of life unlived.
Irvin D. Yalom
Life
Death
Related
Terror
Closely
Experienced
Amount
Every man may reign secure in his petty tyranny, and spread terror and desolation around him, until the trump of the Archangel shall excite different emotions in his soul.
James Otis
Man
Soul
Emotions
Tyranny
Petty
Every
Desolation
Secure
Shall
Excite
Until
Him
Around
Terror
Spread
His
Trump
May
Different
Different Emotions
Reign
Every Man
The terror dementia sufferers must feel is unimaginable, but the techniques they use to hide their difficulties - the ducking and diving and keeping the world laughing - are perfectly understandable.
Laurie Graham
World
Hide
Difficulties
Laughing
Must
Diving
Perfectly
Feel
Dementia
Terror
Understandable
Unimaginable
Use
Keeping
Techniques
Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.
Lewis Mumford
Death
War
Destruction
Starvation
Characterize
Misery
Part
Principal
Terror
Form
Process
Product
I've done a lot of death cartoons - tombstones, Grim Reaper, illness, obituaries... I'm not great at analyzing things, but my guess is that maybe the only relief from the terror of being alive is jokes.
Roz Chast
Death
Great
Jokes
Guess
Analyzing
Alive
Relief
Cartoons
Obituaries
Only
Terror
Lot
Done
Maybe
Being
Grim
Reaper
Illness
Things
Poverty and ignorance, which beget terror, are not eradicated by firing artillery shells. Borders do not stop rockets, and barbed wire does not prevent terror.
Shimon Peres
Ignorance
Poverty
Borders
Prevent
Wire
Firing
Terror
Does
Shells
Eradicated
Rockets
Artillery
Stop
Which
Barbed
Barbed Wire
All tyrannies are virtuoso displays, over many years, of cunning, risk-taking, terror, delusion, narcissism, showmanship, and charm, distilled into a spectacle of total personal control.
Simon Sebag Montefiore
Narcissism
Control
Virtuoso
Distilled
Total
Charm
Risk-Taking
Delusion
Over
Terror
Years
Cunning
Personal
Many
Showmanship
Spectacle
We live in a world of guns, bombs and terror. To conquer hate seems a nigh-impossible task.
Theodore Bikel
Hate
World
Live
Guns
Seems
Terror
Task
Conquer
Bombs
Courage does not mean not fearing or not grieving. It does mean recognizing and resisting terror management right away, from the moment of the attack, precisely when it seems most difficult to do so.
Timothy D. Snyder
Courage
Management
Difficult
Recognizing
Fearing
Seems
Attack
Most
Terror
Does
Precisely
Grieving
Mean
Moment
Away
Right
Right Away
Resisting
I think the international community should unite to fight such inhuman phenomena as terror attacks and the murder of totally innocent people.
Vladimir Putin
Fight
People
Innocent
Community
Think
Innocent People
Totally
Attacks
Terror
Should
Inhuman
International
International Community
Unite
Phenomena
No references to the need to fight terror can be an argument for restricting human rights.
Vladimir Putin
Rights
Fight
Argument
Human Rights
Restricting
Terror
References
Human
Need
Books and all forms of writing have always been objects of terror to those who seek to suppress the truth.
Wole Soyinka
Truth
Writing
Books
Those
Seek
Objects
Suppress
Terror
Always
Been
Forms
Who
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
Me
Terrorism
Political
Civilians
Purpose
Indiscriminate
Point
Make
Terror
Use
For years, the Bush Administration eviscerated all the military and legal structures that were designed to separate the innocent from the guilty in the 'Global War on Terror.'
Alex Gibney
War
Legal
Innocent
Military
Guilty
Administration
Structures
Global
Global War
Terror
Were
Years
Bush
Bush Administration
Separate
Designed
Spring and summer 1942 was probably the worst period of internal terror in Slovakia. It was also the time of mass deportation of Slovak Jews to the extermination camps in Poland.
Alexander Dubcek
Time
Spring
Jews
Summer
Worst
Slovakia
Poland
Mass
Period
Also
Terror
Camps
Deportation
Internal
Extermination
Much of what we regard as truth in the war on terror is actually rather suspect.
Amitava Kumar
Truth
War
Rather
Terror
Suspect
Regard
Much
Actually
When you're on the battlefield, you switch off your soul; otherwise, you would die of terror - you would die of fear. You switch off your soul, and you act like an animal or a machine.
Amos Oz
You
Soul
Animal
Fear
Otherwise
Machine
Battlefield
Would
Like
Terror
Off
Die
Act
Your
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