“ Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers; deception, when it works, is the most elegant and the least expensive manipulation of all. Vernor Vinge
“ The door suddenly jerks open. A wideeyedteenager bursts out. She stares at me in dazed horror. In a strangeway, I both know and don’t know what has just happened. As the fragmentsbegin to converge, th… Peter A. Levine
“ Terror is a powerful means of policy and one would have to be a hypocrite not to understand this. Leon Trotsky
“ No, he is not vicious, nor is he in the least demented. His mind is a wonder chamber, from which he can extract treasures that you and I would give years of our life to acquire. Robert W. Chambers
“ Imagine experiencing pervasive and perpetual sensations of dread and shame, the sort of visceral response that you might have when your body reacts to a physical threat. Envision how distressing it wo… Winograd Arie M
“ Though Abdul had been as afraid of ghosts as most Annawadi boys, these reports did not disturb him. Being terrorized by living people seemed to have diminished his fear of the dead. Katherine Boo
“ Nobody should be whipped. Remember that, once and for all. Neither man nor animal can be influenced by anything but suggestion. Mikhail Bulgakov
“ To hear them laugh was to hear that everything was all right, but to see them laugh was to see otherwise David Finkel
“ The first time Akash took Supriya to view the pool, I rose up in strident protest, and he was astonished by the way she turned her face away, her eyes filled with terror. “I am petrified of water!” sh… Deepti Menon
“ To this day, I believe the unity of the world's countries in the fight against terror is more powerful than the fight itself. Michael DeLong
“ I think the world divides neatly into those who are excited by the managed induction of terror and those who are not. I do not find terror exciting. I find it terrifying. One of my basic goals is to s… David Foster Wallace
“ Most nightmares are caged in their realm by implausibilities. The sleeper slogs through quicksand in a fun house of frightening nonsense and disjointed mumbo jumbo. But everything’s all better once th… Jamie Mason
“ Psychological trauma is an affliction of the powerless. At the moment of trauma, the victim is rendered helpless by overwhelming force. When the force is that of nature, we speak of disasters. When th… Judith Lewis Herman
“ Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it. Noam Chomsky
“ It screamed downward, splitting air and sky without effort. A target expanded in size, brought into focus by time and velocity. There was a moment before impact that was the last instant of things as… Steven Galloway
“ She decided that day to study Russian, the language of violence, terror, and absurdity. She knew she would never be bored. Natalie Standiford
“ But people had forgotten there was a day in the not too distant past when they’d not seen or heard of bombings, and suicide vests, and snipers. Alicia, though, had not forgotten. Rona Simmons
“ It gave an appalling idea of the value of an hour, and I thought I could never waste one again without remorse and terror. Mark Twain
