Terror Quotes

I believe in the power of laughter and tears as an antidote to hatred and terror. (Charlie Chaplin)
The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it. View quote
Alfred Hitchcock
Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion. View quote
Joseph Conrad
The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision. View quote
Maimonides
Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror. View quote
Herbert Spencer
The weapon of the Republic is terror, and virtue is its strength. View quote
Georg Büchner
Greater is our terror of the unknown. View quote
Livy
You can't make war against terror. Terror is a technique of battle. It's a tactic that has been employed since time immemorial. You can conduct clandestine action against terrorists, and that must be done. View quote
John le Carré
Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own infinitude, and his infinitude is, in one sense, overcome. View quote
George Santayana
I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror. (Charles Baudelaire)
The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea. View quote
Jean-Luc Godard
The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror. View quote
Peter Kropotkin
Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement. View quote
Barack Obama
Imagination, of course, can open any door - turn the key and let terror walk right in. View quote
Truman Capote
We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace. We know that oppressive governments support terror, while free governments fight the terrorists in their midst. We know that free peoples embrace progress and life, instead of becoming the recruits for murderous ideologies. View quote
George W. Bush
In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo daVinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce The cuckoo clock. View quote
Orson Welles
The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror. View quote
Oscar Wilde
The basis of optimism is sheer terror. View quote
Oscar Wilde
To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability. View quote
Oscar Wilde
The point of terrorism is to cause terror, sometimes to further a political goal and sometimes out of sheer hatred. The people terrorists kill are not the targets; they are collateral damage. And blowing up planes, trains, markets or buses is not the goal; those are just tactics. The real targets of terrorism are the rest of us: the billions of us who are not killed but are terrorized because of the killing. The real point of terrorism is not the act itself, but our reaction to the act. And we're doing exactly what the terrorists want. (Bruce Schneier)
The night can sweat with terror as before We pieced our thoughts into philosophy, And planned to bring the world under a rule, Who are but weasels fighting in a hole. View quote
William Butler Yeats
Books and all forms of writing have always been objects of terror to those who seek to suppress the truth. View quote
Wole Soyinka
A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment. View quote
Carl Jung
The best political weapon is the weapon of terror. Cruelty commands respect. Men may hate us. But, we don't ask for their love; only for their fear. View quote
Heinrich Himmler