9 11 Attack Quotes

“Two days after the tragic events of 9/11, I found myself anxious, upset, and desperately in need of the color green.”
― Eleyne-Mari Sharp, Mad About Hue: A Memoir in Living Color

“Remembering is not what's important. What's important is never forgetting the need to remember.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I cannot engage in the remembrance of the 9-11 attacks because I am aware of the far greater number of horrific deaths of innocent civilians that the USA unleashed in Iraq and Afghanistan.”
― Steven Magee

“A world without 9/11 and January 6 begins with a heart without hate.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“The days of passengers sitting still during plane hijackings ended with 9/11. Before then, the worst that would have happened was that you'd probably spend a few days on a runway in a banana republic while the hijackers made their demands. On September 11th, 2001, it was just fireballs of instant death as the planes got deliberately crashed by the terrorists. From that point on, passivity was never an option again.”
― Stewart Stafford

“Living in Hawaii and working at the world’s largest telescopes at the W. M. Keck Observatory was my September 11th 2001.”
― Steven Magee

“In the weeks to follow, the Shin Bet would begin searching for lessons to be found in the rubble of what would come to be known simply as 9/11. Why had the U.S. intelligence services not been able to prevent the disaster? For one thing, they operated independently and competitively. For another, they relied mostly on technology and rarely collaborated with terrorists. Those tactics may have been fine in the Cold War, but it’s pretty tough to combat fanatical ideals with technology.”
― Mosab Hassan Yousef, Son of Hamas

“[...] In a country where values are collapsing, patriotism becomes the handmaiden to totalitarianism. The country becomes the religion. We are asked to live in a state of religious fervor: Love America! Love it because America has become a substitute for religion. But to love your country indiscriminately means that critical distinctions begin to go. And democracy depends upon these distinctions.

A good Englishman has a certain sense of the complexity of his national life. Even if he rides to hounds. The British have memory in a way we don't. That is the scariest single thing about American democracy to me: We don't have roots the way other countries do. Relatively, we are without deep traditions. So the transition from democracy to totalitarianism could happen quickly.”
― Norman Mailer, Why are We at War?