Glenn Greenwald Quotes

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

I think that in our society we use the word 'terrorism' a lot - individuals throw the word around a lot without carefully considering it.

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

You cannot have good terrorists and bad terrorists.

Pakistan and its associates find it difficult to understand that there are no 'good terrorists and bad terrorists.'

ISIS is an idea. And we have to fight this idea with the same tools that they're using.

Nobody, absolutely nobody, straps a bomb on their body because they were recruited from the Internet. It takes an enormous amount of personal face-to-face contact and time in order to recruit a young person into the cause of jihad.

All terrorism is theater.

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

The threat has changed from simply worrying about foreigners coming here, to worrying about people in the United States, American citizens - raised here, born here, and who for whatever reason, have decided that they are going to become radicalized and take up arms against the nation in which they were born.

Terrorism is a real despair. These are people for whom life has been so negative that they're willing to die if they can take down some of their enemies.

We know that al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has some very dangerous, very important leaders who are tied directly to the top leadership of al Qaeda central, including a man who was formerly Osama bin Laden's secretary.

I mean the terrorists are - are like a pimple, like a boil. They'll go away.

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

Some people are more terrorist than others.

Now we are showing to the world that this fighting against two terrorist groups was feasible and now we have an isolated case which doesn't mean that terrorism is alive, as it was before.

The War on Terror is the only war we have ever been involved with in which our enemy did not want the war to end…. Terrorists do not want to defeat us in the usual sense; they want us to become more like them.

Terrorism often finds a home in states mired in civil war …

Terrorism is a strategy of provocation.

If you think you can finish ISIS off with the PYD and YPG, you cannot, because they are terrorist groups as well.

I avoid continuously writing or tweeting about ISIS, as it centres them in the narrative and we end up reacting to them and reacting to the agenda they set.

Israel is under a dual terrorist attack, from within and from without. And terrorism from within is always more dangerous than terrorism from without.

Violent extremism is going viral, but our response to it is moving at bureaucratic, sluggish speed.

ISIL does something al-Qaida would never imagine: they test people by tasking them.

I think these al Qaeda franchise groups have clearly evolved into a much more dangerous strain.