Bombers – Quotes

I’m very interested in

I’m very interested in how idealistic young people can get caught up in all sorts of systems of extreme belief, you know, whether it’s cults or whether it’s suicide bombers. Emma Donoghue

I\\’ve always been fascinated

I’ve always been fascinated by the idea that there’s no such thing as evil; it’s all in your point of view. To one group a suicide bomber is the antichrist and to one he’s a hero. Eli Roth

The majority of terrorist attacks that have been disrupted in the United States have been disrupted due to things like the Time Square bomber, who was caught by a hotdog vendor, not a mass surveillance program, not a cyber-espionage campaign. Edward Snowden

When we look at

When we look at the full-on mass surveillance watching everyone in the country, in the United States, it doesn’t work. It didn’t stop the attacks in Boston. The marathon bombings. Where again, we knew who these individuals were. It didn’t stop the Underwear Bomber, whose father walked into an embassy and warned us about this … Read more

The rifle and handgun

The rifle and handgun are ‘equalizers’ — the weapons of a democracy. Tanks and bombers represent dictatorship. Edward Abbey

The tank, the B-52,

The tank, the B-52, the fighter-bomber, the state-controlled police and military are the weapons of dictatorship. The rifle is the weapon of democracy. Not for nothing was the revolver called an \”equalizer.\” Edward Abbey

It\\’s a bit scary

It’s a bit scary to see my book come true: the recent (if minor) LA earthquakes, Hurricane Sandy, the Boston bomber, and so on – much of it stoppable, I think, and yet I, too, am also guilty of passivity. Edan Lepucki

I can\’t help thinking

I can’t help thinking the failed New York bomber would’ve done far more damage if he’d simply driven throught Times Square in a Toyota. Frankie Boyle

The cost of one

The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities … We pay for a single fighter with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. Dwight D. Eisenhower

Post-adolescent Expert Syndrome The

Post-adolescent Expert Syndrome The tendency of young people around the age of eighteen, males especially, to become altruistic experts on everything, a state of mind required by nature to ensure warriors who are willing to die with pleasure on the battlefield. Also the reason why religions recruit kamikaze pilots and suicide bombers almost exclusively from … Read more