{"quotes":[{"text":"I will follow anyone and tell everyone my message because it is urgent: Please humanity Protect Yazidis.","author":"Widad Akreyi","tags":["genocide","human-rights","humanity","isis","peace","terrorism","widad-akrawi","yazidis"],"id":1439,"author_id":"Widad+Akreyi"},{"text":"Unless and until something concrete is done about addressing the Israeli-Palestinian issue you won't get a real start on the war against terrorism.","author":"Bob Hawke","tags":["start","you","terrorism "],"id":2632,"author_id":"Bob+Hawke"},{"text":"The august international organizations charged with preserving peace and human dignity in the world—the UN, the EU, among others—would have preferred that terrorist atrocities be limited to Israel. However, once the intentional mass murder of innocent civilians was legitimized against Israel, it was legitimized everywhere, constrained by nothing more than the strongly held beliefs of those who would become the mass murderers. Because the Palestinians were encouraged by most of the world to believe that the murder of innocent Israeli civilians is a legitimate tactic to advance the Palestinian nationalist cause, the Islamists believe that they may commit mass murder anywhere in the world to advance their holy cause. As a result, we suffer from a plague of Islamic terrorism, from Moscow to Madrid, from Bali to Beslan, from Nairobi to New York, authored and perfected by the Palestinians. Israel and the United States are not separate targets of Islamic terrorism. The whole world is its target. Israel and the United States share the bull’s-eye.","author":"Brigitte Gabriel","tags":["terrorism"],"id":3191,"author_id":"Brigitte+Gabriel"},{"text":"Islamophobia defines whether a person is really a thinking and sentient sapiens or an ignorant caveman.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["consciousness","fear","fundamentalism","human-behavior","human-mind","human-nature","inspirational","inspiring","islam","islamophobia","jihad","motivational","muslims","philosophy","phobia","primitive-human-behavior","quran","religious-terrorism","terrorism","truth"],"id":3452,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"I’d see the arrow. I’d think about attitude and perception. Maybe the green arrow on the ceiling is to Muslims as the KJV in the Motel 6 nightstand is to Christians.","author":"Tucker Elliot","tags":["9-11","christianity","education","indonesia","islam","jakarta","teaching","terrorism","travel"],"id":4841,"author_id":"Tucker+Elliot"},{"text":"The advantages of a hereditary Monarchy are self-evident. Without some such method of prescriptive, immediate and automatic succession, an interregnum intervenes, rival claimants arise, continuity is interrupted and the magic lost. Even when Parliament had secured control of taxation and therefore of government; even when the menace of dynastic conflicts had receded in to the coloured past; even when kingship had ceased to be transcendental and had become one of many alternative institutional forms; the principle of hereditary Monarchy continued to furnish the State with certain specific and inimitable advantages.Apart from the imponderable, but deeply important, sentiments and affections which congregate around an ancient and legitimate Royal Family, a hereditary Monarch acquires sovereignty by processes which are wholly different from those by which a dictator seizes, or a President is granted, the headship of the State. The King personifies both the past history and the present identity of the Nation as a whole. Consecrated as he is to the service of his peoples, he possesses a religious sanction and is regarded as someone set apart from ordinary mortals. In an epoch of change, he remains the symbol of continuity; in a phase of disintegration, the element of cohesion; in times of mutability, the emblem of permanence. Governments come and go, politicians rise and fall: the Crown is always there. A legitimate Monarch moreover has no need to justify his existence, since he is there by natural right. He is not impelled as usurpers and dictators are impelled, either to mesmerise his people by a succession of dramatic triumphs, or to secure their acquiescence by internal terrorism or by the invention of external dangers. The appeal of hereditary Monarchy is to stability rather than to change, to continuity rather than to experiment, to custom rather than to novelty, to safety rather than to adventure.The Monarch, above all, is neutral. Whatever may be his personal prejudices or affections, he is bound to remain detached from all political parties and to preserve in his own person the equilibrium of the realm. An elected President – whether, as under some constitutions, he be no more than a representative functionary, or whether, as under other constitutions, he be the chief executive – can never inspire the same sense of absolute neutrality. However impartial he may strive to become, he must always remain the prisoner of his own partisan past; he is accompanied by friends and supporters whom he may seek to reward, or faced by former antagonists who will regard him with distrust. He cannot, to an equal extent, serve as the fly-wheel of the State.","author":"Harold Nicholson","tags":["british","constitution","continuity","dictator","elect","government","hereditary","identity","institution","king","legitimate","monarch","neutral","partisan","political","politician","president","queen","royal-family","service","sovereign","state","succession","terrorism"],"id":5646,"author_id":"Harold+Nicholson"},{"text":"How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.","author":"Salman Rushdie","tags":["civil-society","courage","freedom","serenity","stoicism","terrorism"],"id":5664,"author_id":"Salman+Rushdie"},{"text":"The route to his hotel had been committed to memory a long time ago. From the overflowing trashcan on the corner to the feral cats that frequented the dumpsters behind the nearby shawarma shop, Jamison knew every detail.","author":"Christian F. Burton","tags":["saudi-arabia","terrorism","thrillers"],"id":7177,"author_id":"Christian+F.+Burton"},{"text":"Many signs point to the fact that the youth of the Third World will no longer tolerate living in circumstances that give them no hope for the future. From the young boys I met in the demobilization camps in Sierra Leone to the suicide bombers of Palestine and Chechnya, to the young terrorists who fly planes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we can no longer afford to ignore them. We have to take concrete steps to remove the causes of their rage, or we have to be prepared to suffer the consequences.","author":"Roméo Dallaire","tags":["9-11","chechnya","international","palestine","politics","rwanda","sierra-leone","suicide-bombers","terrorism"],"id":7654,"author_id":"Rom%C3%A9o+Dallaire"},{"text":"Terrorism is the use of violence or intimidation in the pursuit of a political aim. The highest political aim is the creation and enforcement of law. Cops use violence and intimidation to enforce law. Therefore, all cops are, by definition, terrorists.","author":"Dane Whalen","tags":["anarchism","anarchy","cops","etymology","government","police","political","politics","terrorism"],"id":8597,"author_id":"Dane+Whalen"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":490,"pages":49,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}