(1349 quotes found)
“The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.”
H. P Lovecraft
“I can think of no faster way to unite the American people behind George W. Bush than a terrorist attack on an American target overseas. And I believe George W. Bush will quickly unite the American people through his foreign policy.”
Henry Kissinger
“Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.”
Adolf Hitler
“The little flickering part of his brain that was still sparking coherent thought through the fog of mind-numbing terror that filled Colon's head was telling him that he was so far out of his depth that the fish had lights on their noses”
Terry Pratchett
“Convergence of our views on global trade issues under the WTO and our common resolve to combat terrorism provide a valuable base for mutual understanding.”
Abdul Kalam
“However, in the end, the question [remains]: Why him and not the man standing next to him? Why did this person become a terrorist whereas the person standing next to him, suffering all the same privations, having probably all the same political points of view, did not become a terrorist? The answer to that is an old novelistic answer. The answer to that is character .”
Salman Rushdie
“Notre incapacité à regarder les actes les plus barbares autrement que sous l'angle de leur instrumentalisation possible est déjà un consentement tacite à la barbarie.”
Jacques Julliard
“Religion is based, I think, primarily and mainly upon fear. It is partly the terror of the unknown and partly, as I have said, the wish to feel that you have a kind of elder brother who will stand by you in all your troubles and disputes....A good world needs knowledge, kindliness, and courage; it does not need a regretful hankering after the past or a fettering of the free intelligence by the words uttered long ago by ignorant men.”
Bertrand Russel
“If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.”
Seneca
“The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds.”
Isaiah Berlin
