Quotes about Terror

The War on Terror is ultimately a battle for the human mind and heart.

Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by terror and force, whether it arises under the Fascist or the Communist flag. All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded to the individual.

Lucy was frightened, frightened near to death. Her voice choked, she could not breath, her limbs went numb. This is not happening, she said to herself as the men forced her down; it is just a dream, a nightmare. While the men, for their part, drank up her fear, revelled in it, did all they could to hurt her, to menace her, to heighten her terror. Call your dogs! they said to her. Go on, call your dogs! No dogs? Then let us show you dogs!

So take your stand with your spells and with your many sorceries, with which you have wearied yourself from your youth. Perhaps you will succeed; perhaps you will inspire terror!

For the arrows of the Almighty have pierced me; my spirit drinks in their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.

When the disciples heard this, they fell facedown in terror.

Fierce and poisonous animals were created for terrifying man, in order that he might be made aware of the final judgment in hell.

Thielicke gently turned his parishioners to the example of Jesus who saw like no one else the anguish and injustice, the terror, of this planet. Shouldn't such awareness have filled his every waking hour and robbed him of sleep at night? Shouldn't it have shaken his very soul?

For I hear the slander of many; there is terror on every side. They conspire against me and plot to take my life.

So He ended their days in futility, and their years in sudden terror.

to vindicate the fatherless and oppressed, that the men of the earth may strike terror no more.

My heart murmurs within me, and the terrors of death assail me.