Quotes on Terrorism

Wherever you have weakening states and turmoil, you will have a fertile petri dish for terrorism.

No religion is responsible for terrorism. People are responsible for violence and terrorism.

Civilisation, the orderly world in which we live, is frail. We are skating on thin ice. There is a fear of a collective disaster. Terrorism, genocide, flu, tsunamis.

Terrorism fuels itself from all kinds of illicit trafficking: drugs, weapons, human beings.

The gravest threat faced by the world is of an extremist group getting hold of nuclear weapons or materials.

Terrorism is a persistent and evolving global menace. No country is immune.

If we destroy human rights and rule of law in response to terrorism, they have won.

There are many terrorist states in the world, but the United States is unusual in that it is officially committed to international terrorism.

The diagnosis that poverty, lack of education, or lack of opportunities have much to do with terrorism requires a fundamentally optimistic view of human nature. This diagnosis leads to the prognosis that all we need to do to solve the terrorism problem is to create societies that are less poor, better educated and have more opportunities.

Let's make two things clear: Isil is not "Islamic." No religion condones the killing of innocents, and the vast majority of Isil's victims have been Muslim. And Isil is certainly not a state.

"Terrorism" is what we call the violence of the weak, and we condemn it; "war" is what we call the violence of the strong, and we glorify it.

Israel has no better friend than America. And America has no better friend than Israel. We stand together to defend democracy. We stand together to advance peace. We stand together to fight terrorism.

It is true that when there's a drone attack, those - that the - the terrorists are killed, it's true. But 500 and 5,000 more people rises against it, and more terrorism occurs, and more - more bomb blasts occurs.

The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chainsaws. It is not enough to understand the natural world; the point is to defend and preserve it. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.

We do not create terrorism by fighting the terrorists. We invite terrorism by ignoring them.

The teachings of many faiths share much in common. And people of many faiths are united in our commitments to love our families, to protect our children, and to build a more peaceful world. In the coming year, let us resolve to seize opportunities to work together in a spirit of friendship and cooperation. Through our combined efforts, we can end terrorism and rid our civilization of the damaging effects of hatred and intolerance, ultimately achieving a brighter future for all.

This was not an act of terrorism, but it was an act of war.

Terrorism does not disappear with revenge tactics but through making justice and equality before law a reality.

If you watch the news and don't like it, then this is your counter program to the news.

If terrorism is to be defeated, the world of Islam must take on board the secularist-humanist principles on which the modern is based, and without which their countries' freedom will remain a distant dream.

If, in the name of combating terrorism, we so restrict our own freedom, have we not thereby lost part of the very battle we seek to win?