Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.
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Letter to Marx (4 September 1870)Friedrich Engels
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We say our terror against America is blessed terror in order to put an end to suppression, in order for the United States to stop its support to Israel.
Osama bin Laden
We hope and believe that the best way of limiting the usurpation of power by individuals, military or otherwise, is to put the people in charge. Between fractions, between clans, plots and coups d'etats can be perpetrated. Against the people, a durable coup d'état cannot be perpetrated. Therefore, the best way of preventing the army from confiscating power for itself and for itself alone is to make this power shared by the voltaic people from the outset. That's what we are aiming for.
August 21, 1983 press conference.Thomas Sankara
Terror, salutary terror, is here in truth the order of the day; it represses all the efforts of the wicked ; it divests crime of all covering and tinsel!
Joseph Fouche
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
John Cage
Certainly the Patriot Act would have never been passed, because it wasn't available to us... It was almost 400 pages long, and became available less than an hour before it was debated on the House floor... The congressmembers were intimidated, "if I do nothing, my people gonna be mad, because they want us to do something". And the people are frightened. When they are frightened, they are much more willing to give us their liberties. But giving up their liberties won't make them safer, that's the real sad part of it.
Ron Paul
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