Bruce Hoffman Quotes

Terrorism is a means/a tactic, not an ideological or defined physical enemy

Putting fear into people is the principal goal of terrorists, and they have been successful.

All terrorism is theater.

The uncertainty of the danger belongs to the essence of terrorism.

Our enemy of international terrorism respects no laws of warfare or morality, and its individual members take innocent lives, just to create chaos for news cameras.

I never call it an insurgency. I call it terrorism.

Terrorism always has the advantage of surprise.

Europe has a long and tragic history of mostly domestic terrorism.

Bottoms line: terrorists are always at work.

Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face.

Terrorism seems to be the ugly twin of democracy. We need to learn to live with it because we are vulnerable to it.

The purpose of terrorism is to terrorize.

We cannot use force everywhere that a radical ideology takes root.

The real threat comes from terrorism.

Terrorism is not something that is being conducted in dark corners of Pakistan. It's done in broad daylight.

True terrorism, you know, weaponized fear. In defense of ourselves, we're fighting - actively fighting something else. But if you're going to fight terrorism, to me, you fight the root causes of terrorism.

The purpose of terrorism lies not just in the violent act itself. It is in producing terror. It sets out to inflame, to divide, to produce consequences which they then use to justify further terror.

Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.

This is a war against terrorists. Not a war against a religion, but a war against terrorists.

We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.

Terrorism, to me, is the use of terror for political purpose, and terror is indiscriminate murder of civilians to make a political point.

The purpose behind terrorism is to instill fear in people - the fear that electrical power, for instance, will be taken away or the transportation system will be taken down.

Terrorism is a significant threat to peace and security, prosperity and people.

Like crime, terrorism is a fact of life. I grew up in Israel, where every unattended bag was a suspected bomb; when my family moved for a few years, it was to London in the early years of 'the Troubles.'

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