"One of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror. "
— George W. Bush

"Funny, for all surveillance, Osama bin Laden is still free—and we're not. Guess who's winning the "war on terror?"
— Cory Doctorow

"Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it."
— Noam Chomsky

"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."
— Terry Jones

""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!" ~Trudy Doo, lead singer of the Speedwhores (from the book Little Brother)"
— Cory Doctorow

"Osama, baah!" Bashir roared.

"Osama is not a product of Pakistan or Afghanistan. He is a creation of America. Thanks to America, Osama is in every home. As a military man, I know you can never fight and win against someone who can shoot at you once and then run off and hide while you have to remain eternally on guard. You have to attack the source of your enemy's strength. In America's case, that's not Osama or Saddam or anyone else. The enemy is ignorance. That only way to defeat it is to build relationships with these people, to draw them into the modern world with education and business. Otherwise the fight will go on forever."
— Greg Mortenson (Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time)

"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?"
— George Orwell (1984)

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

"A Manhattan lawyer who describes himself as "America`s leading expert on the militia movement" writes that he hugged his three-year-old kid the night of the Oklahoma City bombing. He told junior that it happened "because they hated too much"

For now, let`s accept the premise that one hundred sixty-eight humans died in Oklahoma City because people "hated too much"

Now answer these questions if you would be so kind: did a federal sniper shoot Vicki Weaver in the face because he hated too much? Did our government conduct the Tuskegee with syphilis on black soldiers because it hated too much? "
— Jim Goad (The Redneck Manifesto: How Hillbillies, Hicks, and White Trash Became America's Scapegoats)

"The surest way to prevent seditions...is to take away the matter of them."
— Francis Bacon (The Essays)

"The Government is making a fool of itself by attributing all terrorism and acts against the government only to one single patriot"
— Carlos Marighella (Minimanual of the Urban Guerilla)

"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"
— Benjamin Netanyahu

"Der Guerillero besetzt das Land, der Terrorist besetzt das Denken."
— Heribert Prantl (Der Terrorist als Gesetzgeber. Wie man mit Angst Politik macht)

"Übertreibung und Maßlosigkeit im Kampf gegen den Terrorismus diskreditiert den Kampf gegen den Terrorismus."
— Heribert Prantl (Der Terrorist als Gesetzgeber. Wie man mit Angst Politik macht)

"Das Entscheidende an der Wirksamkeit des Terrorismus sind immer Sympathisanten."
— Kay Nehm

"Wenn keine Menschen mehr erreichbar sind, wird die sogenannte Propaganda in der Tat nutzlos."
— Kay Nehm

"Der rechtsstaatliche Katalog ist schön und gut, aber nur, solange er die Bekämpfung des Terrorismus nicht behindert."
— Heribert Prantl (Der Terrorist als Gesetzgeber. Wie man mit Angst Politik macht)

"Heute ist der Terrorist an die Stelle des Mörders von einst getreten."
— Heribert Prantl (Der Terrorist als Gesetzgeber. Wie man mit Angst Politik macht)

"Nicht nur Menschen, auch Rechtsgrundsätze wurden [...] von den Trümmern der Twin Towers erschlagen."
— Heribert Prantl (Der Terrorist als Gesetzgeber. Wie man mit Angst Politik macht)

"Im Kampf gegen den Terror zählt [...] die Freiheit des Einzelnen wenig."
— Heribert Prantl (Der Terrorist als Gesetzgeber. Wie man mit Angst Politik macht)

"Wer ein Feindstrafrecht zu brauchen glaubt, der glaubt nicht an die Überlegenheit des Rechtsstaates über den Fundamentalismus."
— Heribert Prantl (Der Terrorist als Gesetzgeber. Wie man mit Angst Politik macht)

"Um dem Terrorismus kein weiteres Terrain zu überlassen, ist der Staat von vornherein gezwungen, feste, von keiner Seite überschreitbare Grenzlinien des rechtsstaatlich Möglichen zu ziehen."
— Horst Herold

"Cobb was in a Klan group back in the 60's, and told me stories about how they used to throw live 'coons, possums, porcupines, or ganders into Black houses at night in attempts to run them out of Johnston and Harnett County. Cobb said that late one night, he and three or four other local rednecks snuck up on the house of one Black family, peered through the window and saw a huge Black woman sitting in front of a TV watching Gunsmoke, with a gang of children all around her.

The window was open and Cobb threw a live possum in her lap. Cobb said she squalled about the loudest and longest he'd ever heard, and jumped about four feet up in the air. Cobb then ran and jumped into a nearby ditch to observe what would happen next, and it wasn't long before they saw the Black woman bust out of the back door and run across a cotton field with a trail of children behind. Cobb said she was as wide as three rows of cotton, but fast and agile. She outran all the young'uns. "
— Frazier Glenn Miller (A White Man Speaks Out)

"Islamic laws states that muslims shouldn`t stay long in infidel lands"
— Osama bin Laden (Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama bin Laden)

"We will consider every hand who will try to take our weapons, as an Israeli hand."
— Sayed Hassan Nasrallah (Voice of Hezbollah: The Statements of Sayed Hassan Nasrallah)

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

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