Fighting terrorism is like being a goalkeeper. You can make a hundred brilliant saves but the only shot that people remember is th...e one that gets past you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Terrorism is an intolerant reaction to the hypertolerance of our societies, just as rape may be an intolerance of our boundless se...xual tolerance (paradoxically, the number of rapes increases with the degree of sexual liberation). It is second-generation violence--a reaction to the absence of violence. The same is true of the second-generation illnesses (cancer); they are a reaction to the hyperprotection of our bodies. When a woman turns off all signals of pleasure in your arms and leaves you no other solution but a disenchanted rape, no phantasy is of any use. But the same applies when her sexual demand is so great as to leave no room even for the illusion of rape.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One of the surest evidences of an elevated taste is the power of enjoying works of impassioned terrorism, in poetry, and painting.... The man who can look at impassioned subjects of terror with a feeling of exultation may be certain he has an elevated taste.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The drama can only be brought to its climax in one of two ways--through the selective brutality of terrorism or the impartial horr...ors of war.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The terrible thing about terrorism is that ultimately it destroys those who practise it. Slowly but surely, as they try to extingu...ish life in others, the light within them dies.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the same passion t...hat lay at the root of the despair, namely humiliation and hatred.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is true that this man was nothing but an elemental force in motion, directed and rendered more effective by extreme cunning and... by a relentless tactical clairvoyance .... Hitler was history in its purest form.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As for Hitler, his professed religion unhesitatingly juxtaposed the God-Providence and Valhalla. Actually his god was an argument ...at a political meeting and a manner of reaching an impressive climax at the end of speeches.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »