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To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.

Ernst Fischer 

1899-1972, Austrian Editor, Poet, Critic 

Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust themselves, to walk in liberty.

Aldous Huxley 

1894-1963, British Author 

Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown that terror becomes the known.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery 

1900-1944, French Aviator, Writer 

He who strikes terror in others is himself continually in fear.

Claudius Claudianus 

340-410, Egyptian Latin Poet 

Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.

Cyril Connolly 

1903-1974, British Critic 

A fully equipped duke costs as much to keep up as two Dreadnoughts, and dukes are just as great a terror -- and they last longer.

David Lloyd George 

1863-1945, British Statesman, Prime Minister 

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Doug Horton 

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Eric Hoffer 

1902-1983, American Author, Philosopher 

Reason can wrestle and overthrow terror.

Euripides 

BC 480-406, Greek Tragic Poet 

Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own infinitude, and his infinitude is, in one sense, overcome.

George Santayana 

1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet 

It has been rightly said that nothing is unimportant, nothing powerless in the universe; a single atom can dissolve everything, and save everything! What terror! There lies the eternal distinction between good and evil.

Gerard De Nerval 

1808-1855, French Novelist, Poet 

The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.

Gilbert K. Chesterton 

1874-1936, British Author 

Flying is hours and hours of boredom sprinkled with a few seconds of sheer terror.

Gregory 'Pappy' Boyington 

American Colonel During World War II 

The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

Jean-Luc Godard 

1930-, French Filmmaker, Author 

The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.

Maimonides 

1135-1204, Spanish-born Jewish Philosopher 

What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.

Mario Puzo 

1920-, American Novelist 

The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgement but a terror-ridden refusal to be hooked into the, if you will, ecological chain of breathing, growing, and dying. It is the demand, in other words, to remain children.

Midge Decter 

1927-, American Author, Editor, Social Critic 

The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.

Oliver Stone 

1946-, American Director, Writer, Producer 

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

Oscar Wilde 

1856-1900, British Author, Wit 

No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

Oscar Wilde 

1856-1900, British Author, Wit 

Fighting TERRORISM is like being a goalkeeper. You can make a hundred brilliant saves but the only shot that people remember is the one that gets past you.

Paul Wilkinson 

Compromise is never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and the terror of a coward.

Reginald W. Kaufman 

I don't worry about TERRORISM. I was married for two years.

Sam Kinison 

The terrible thing about TERRORISM is that ultimately it destroys those who practice it. Slowly but surely, as they try to extinguish life in others, the light within them dies.

Terry Waite 

1939-, Consultant and Former Hostage, Born in Bollington, Cheshire 

Cruelty has a Human Heart, And jealousy a Human Face; Terror the Human Form Divine, And secrecy the Human Dress. The Human Dress is forged Iron, The Human Form a Fiery Forge, The Human Face a Furnace seal d, The Human Heart its hungry gorge.

William Blake 

1757-1827, British Poet, Painter 

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.

Winston Churchill 

1874-1965, British Statesman, Prime Minister