(1349 quotes found)
“Since September 11, our nation has engaged in a policy of institutionalized racial and ethnic profiling. If Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. were alive today ... he would tell us we must not allow the horrific acts of terror our nation has endured to slowly and subversively destroy the foundation of our democracy.”
John Conyers
“A sin takes on a new and real terror when there seems a chance that it is going to be found out”
Mark Twain
“Two key terrorism prosecutions have been dismissed”
Ahmed Ressam
“Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born /a hundred million years /and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together. There was a peace, a serenity, an absence of all sense of responsibility, an absence of worry, an absence of care, grief, perplexity; and the presence of a deep content and unbroken satisfaction in that hundred million years of holiday which I look back upon with a tender longing and with a grateful desire to resume, when the opportunity comes.”
“For as children tremble and fear everything in the blind darkness, so we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.”
Contributed by: Randi
Titus Lucretius Carus
“Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature.”
“Africa was what we inherited from God, America is what we did to it.”
Prabhudoss Samuel
“You want to put an end to terrorism? Start by shooting down the bastards who burn up buses and break shop windows at the drop of a hat.”
“True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.”
Kurt Vonnegut
