Karan Mahajan Quotes

In the '70s, terrorism was much more serious, in that many more people got killed.

We have, for whatever the reason, disturbed people... who sometimes do terrible, violent things, and sometimes those of us who serve in elected positions are the target.

Especially dangerous is crime disguised under political and pseudo-religious motives, such as terrorism and the like.

That the policy of the dynamiter is senseless as well as criminal is evident when we consider that all the recent attempts have been directed not even against the governing classes, or their official buildings, but against places of common public resort, and were more likely to hurt friends or neutrals than foes.

The dreadful terrorism perpetrated by Palestinian terrorist organizations has affected thousands of Israeli citizens, has destroyed families, and has tried to disrupt the lives of the citizens of Israel.

The commonly accepted definition of terrorism is that it is politically motivated violence directed at civilians by entities other than a state. These kind of attacks can come from the far right, the far left, racists of every stripe, as well as jihadists.

Terrorism doesn't have a border. Terrorists attack Mumbai, Peshawar, and also Paris.

Terrorists continue to be outliers with limited appeal at best.

Human sacrifice is much in vogue right now. The Republican right thinks that people who get on its nerves, especially women, should be sent to the stake. . .

It [9/11 event] transcended the political and moved into the metaphysical. There was a kind of cosmic, demonic quality of mind at work here, which refused to have any interest in dialogue and political organization and persuasion.

The suicide bombings have increased. There's too many of them.

Using terrorism or jihadists or extremists for any political agenda is immoral.

Terrorism is the intentional use of, or threat to use violence against civilians or against civilian targets, in order to attain political aims.

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

I think what speaks loudest and what speaks to your point is the blood that's spilling from Australia, to now California. I mean, how much blood has to be spilled until we recognize inside of a Muslim community that with do have an ideological problem?

The biggest terrorist is George W. Bush.

The bomb-throwers have discredited the cause of freedom, in whose name they threw the bombs.

We've had mass shootings in the United States in the part of violent antiabortion protesters, in the part of violent pro-ISIS militants. The trick and the trap and the horror is not faith, Scott. I don't think the trap and the horror is fanaticism.

Although my own view is that bin Laden does not want to stage an attack that looks like 9/11 in Europe simply because he does not want to be the agent of Trans-Atlantic reconciliation. I think they will continue to do attacks like Madrid, the British attack, the subway systems, because those attacks have proven that the European response so far has been to blame the domestic government, not to side with the Americans.

Suicide terrorism stops when we stop intervening abroad.

We can't accommodate terrorism. When someone uses the slaughter of innocent people to advance a so-called political cause, at that point the political cause becomes immoral and unjust and they should be eliminated from any serious discussion, any serious debate.

You can't shape me anymore. I am the uncontrolled element, the random act. I am forward movement in time. You think you can see me? Then tell me, who am I? You don't know.

I think diseases have no eyes. They pick with a dizzy finger anyone, just anyone.

The definition of terrorism is killing civilians with the intent of changing their political affiliation.

I think that you have a situation where one political party, in specific, if you watched the Republican debate, it's all about terrorism.