Terrorism works better as a tactic for dictatorships, or for would-be dictators, than for revolutionaries.
– Christopher Hitchens
Related Quotes:
- How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism? – Howard Zinn
- Terrorism is the war of the weak and war is the terrorism of the strong. – Martin Bell
- How can you have a war on terrorism while war itself is terrorism! – Howard Zinn
- terrorism is adamant. Fight against requires endurance, specific Counter-terrorism, Intelligence and swift operation – Michael Harris
- Terrorism has nothing to do with religion, Islam or otherwise. Terrorism is born of fundamentalism not of religion. – Abhijit Naskar
- Terrorism has no religion is a theory, and the religion of terrorism is a real threat and practical thing. – Satyendra Singh Shyamal
- There’s a strong message of divine righteousness in dictatorships. Every megalomaniac has to believe his actions are sanctioned by God. – Eric Gamalinda
- Is is true that dictators never dream because they can change their smallest fantasies into realities if they want to? – Alfred de Musset
- Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens. – William Beveridge
- Dictators long ago found that it is easier to unite people in common hatred than in common love. – Dagobert D Runes
- Dictators seem to learn from history much better than democrats – Garry Kasparov
- Power is the sum total of the wills of the m???, transfered by express or tactic agreement to rulers chosen by the masses. – Leo Tolstoy
- Are men like babies? Is trying to distract them a better tactic than asking them to behave reasonably? – Sophie Hannah
- In business ‘professionalism’ is not a tactic but a moral value. – Amit Kalantri
- That was his tactic. Make them want know something they never wanted to know. Lure them into the trap of knowledge. – Sahana Epari
- The civil involvement of the church is a spiritual tactic aim at defeating the forces of darkness. – Sunday Adelaja
- One very important key to maintaining our daily sanity is a simple scheduling tactic I call Putting Things the Hell Off. – Ian Frazier
- That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence. – Christopher Hitchens
- I think that people’s sexual preferences are a legitimate subject for humour, dirty humour if at all possible. – Christopher Hitchens
- Ever since I discovered that my god given male member was going to give me no peace, I decided to give it no rest in return. – Christopher Hitchens
- Control over the production and distribution of oil is the decisive factor in defining who rules whom in the Middle East. – Christopher Hitchens
- The only people truly bound by campaign promises are the voters who believe them. – Christopher Hitchens
- The whole point about corruption in politics is that it can’t be done, or done properly, without a bipartisan consensus. – Christopher Hitchens
- You don’t say ‘they all do it’ unless you know you’ve been doing it too. – Christopher Hitchens
- There are times when it is conservative to be a revolutionary, when the world must be turned on its head in order to be stood on its feet. – Christopher Hitchens
- Everything about Christianity is contained in the pathetic image of ‘the flock. – Christopher Hitchens
- The finest fury is the most controlled. – Christopher Hitchens
- The people who must never have power are the humorless. To impossible certainties of rectitude they ally tedium and uniformity. – Christopher Hitchens
- The enduring rapture with magic and fable has always struck me as latently childish and somehow sexless (and thus also related to childlessness). – Christopher Hitchens
- The forces of piety have always and everywhere been the sworn enemy of the open mind and the open book. – Christopher Hitchens
- The Postmodernists’ tyranny wears people down by boredom and semi-literate prose. – Christopher Hitchens
- The man who prays is the one who thinks that god has arranged matters all wrong, but who also thinks that he can instruct god how to put them right. – Christopher Hitchens
- Beware what you wish for, unless you have the grace to hope that your luck can be shared. – Christopher Hitchens
- If someone tells me that I’ve hurt their feelings, I say, ‘I’m still waiting to hear what your point is. – Christopher Hitchens
- The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks. – Christopher Hitchens
- The point of protesting about ‘moral equivalence’ is surely not to blur moral choices on -˜our side’. Is it? – Christopher Hitchens
- Don’t swallow your moral code in tablet form. – Christopher Hitchens
- [P]erhaps you notice how the denial is so often the preface to the justification. – Christopher Hitchens
- I’ve always regarded it as a test of character to dislike the Kennedys. I don’t really respect anyone who falls for Camelot. – Christopher Hitchens
- When Maimonides says that the Messiah will come but that ‘he may tarry,’ we see the origin of every Jewish shrug from Spinoza to Woody Allen. – Christopher Hitchens