Suicide Bombers Quotes:

You've got to be pretty hopeless to become a suicide bomber.

- George W. Bush

source: Source: www.texasmonthly.com

topic: Suicide, Suicide Bombers, Bombers

I know of no wars started by anyone to impose lack of religion on someone else. We have lethal Sunni v Shia, Catholic against Protestant, but no agnostic suicide bombers attack crowded atheist pubs.

- Simon Hoggart

source: "Simon Hoggart's week: Ever heard of an agnostic suicide bomber?" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2012.

topic: Suicide, Atheist, War, Suicide Bombers, Shia

There is no moral difference between a Stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. They both kill innocent people for political reasons.

- Tony Benn

topic: Suicide, War, Differences, Stealth, Suicide Bombers

If children were taught to question and think through their beliefs, instead of being taught the superior virtue of faith without question, it is a good bet that there would be no suicide bombers.

- Richard Dawkins

topic: Suicide, Children, Thinking, Suicide Bombers

There's nothing heroic about suicide bombers. They're mostly just dumb, brainwashed kids, stoned out of their minds.

- Marcus Luttrell

topic: Suicide, Kids, Dumb, Suicide Bombers, Brainwashed

A large part of the problem, is that young people are being born into the world and growing up without much hope. And so, they become murderers, they become suicide bombers.

- Arthur Hertzberg

topic: Suicide, Growing Up, People, Suicide Bombers

On our watch, the conversation with a would-be suicide bomber will not begin with the words, 'You have the right to remain silent.'

- Mitt Romney

source: "The Rachel Maddow Show", www.msnbc.com. February 18, 2010.

topic: Suicide, Watches, Would Be, Suicide Bombers

Many of Islam's apologists insist that suicide bombing is not Islamic because the Koran forbids suicide. Mmm-hmm. So where are all the Muslims gathering in mass demonstrations to vehemently condemn this practice that slanders their religion? Why does contemporary Islam promote 'martyrdom' as the highest duty of Muslims? Why are photographs of suicide bombers plastered everywhere in Beirut? Because Islam is what Islam does.

- Jamie Glazov

topic: Suicide, Islamic, Practice, Hmm, Suicide Bombers

The suicide bomber who blows up Israeli children cannot transform himself into a martyr. The Palestinian problem is not an Islamic problem.

- Tariq Ramadan

topic: Suicide, Children, Islamic, Suicide Bombers

We owe it to the victims of the suicide bombers who struck London on 7 July 2005 to find out how the attacks happened and to learn the lessons that will spare lives in the future.

- Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones

topic: Suicide, July, Lessons, Spares, Suicide Bombers

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

source: "Emma Donoghue's New Novel Follows "The Wonder" Of Starvation". Interview with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. September 17, 2016.

topic: Suicide, People, Bombers, Idealistic, Suicide Bombers

The suicide bomber's imagination leads him to believe in a brilliant act of heroism, when in fact he is simply blowing himself up pointlessly and taking other people's lives.

- Salman Rushdie

source: "Terror Is Glamour". "Spiegel" Interview, www.spiegel.de. August 28, 2006.

topic: Suicide, Believe, People, Suicide Bombers, Acts Of Heroism

The atheist suicide bomber is unfaithfully committed to his mission

- Dean Cavanagh

topic: Suicide, Atheist, Bombers, Suicide Bombers

Brian Turner writes as only a soldier can, of terror and compassion, hurt and horror, sympathy and desire. He takes us into the truth and trauma of the Iraq war in language that is precise, delicate and beautiful, even as it tells of a suicide bomber, a skull shattered by a bullet, a blade in a bloodgroove.

- Andrew Himes

topic: Beautiful, Suicide, Hurt, Suicide Bombers, Turner

The terrorism of the suicide bomber and the terrorism of aerial bombardment are indeed morally equivalent. To say otherwise (as either side might) is to give one moral superiority over the other, and thus serve to perpetuate the horrors of our time.

- Howard Zinn

source: "Letters: On Terror", www.nytimes.com. August 19, 2007.

topic: Suicide, Giving, Bombers, Moral Superiority, Suicide Bombers

As long as we accept the principle that religious faith must be respected simply because it is religious faith, it is hard to withhold respect from the faith of Osama bin Laden and the suicide bombers

- Richard Dawkins

topic: Suicide, Religious, Long, Suicide Bombers

Officials believe that one of the terrorists was a woman. And there are female suicide bombers. It's just that their reward in paradise is a little different. Instead of getting 72 virgins, they get 72 guys who just listen.

- Bill Maher

topic: Suicide, Believe, Guy, Suicide Bombers

Terror is glamour - not only, but also. I am firmly convinced that there's something like a fascination with death among suicide bombers.

- Salman Rushdie

source: Source: www.spiegel.de

topic: Suicide, Fascination, Bombers, Suicide Bombers

What the fundamentalists are doing is a total negation of their own faith - encouraging and lionizing suicide bombers and killing women and children, hardly in keeping with the teachings of Prophet Mohammed.

- Alexander Haig

topic: Suicide, Children, Teaching, Suicide Bombers, Prophet Mohammed

We have suicide bombers blowing up buses in Israel and very real anti-Semitism on the march in Europe, but the TV networks located the worldwide danger zone for Jews as the space between Mel Gibson's ears.

- L. Brent Bozell III

topic: Suicide, Real, Israel, Suicide Bombers, Blowing Up

The soldiers kill suicide bombers. Think about that. When a guys whole thing in life is to kill himself and you get there first... you are halling ass my friends.

- Dennis Miller

source: "Dennis Miller: All In". Comedy, www.imdb.com. January 21, 2006.

topic: Suicide, Thinking, Things In Life, Suicide Bombers

I did a study of soldiers returning from Iraq, and their levels of PTSD were much higher if they had had to shoot a woman or child, even if they knew the person was a suicide bomber.

- Mia Bloom

topic: Suicide, Children, Iraq, Suicide Bombers, Ptsd

I have long believed that Israel should seek to give up the so-called Occupied Territories in return for security, and that a Palestinian state should be established. I have felt that way all my life. I think it is unreasonable to ask the Israelis to do this in a context where there is no guarantee at all that suicide bombers will be controlled.

- Russ Feingold

source: Interview with Matthew Rothschild, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. April 30, 2002.

topic: Suicide, Giving Up, Thinking, Suicide Bombers

The Palestinians are fighting with human suicide bombers, that's all they have. The Israelis... they've got one of the most powerful military machines in the world. The Palestinians have nothing. So who are the terrorists? I would make a case that both sides are involved in terrorism.

- Ted Turner

source: "Ted's tears". Interview with Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2002.

topic: Suicide, Powerful, Military, Suicide Bombers

I will stand against those who see terrorism when Americans die, but who see suicide bombers who kill Israelis and believe that that is just part of the negotiating process.

- Alan Keyes

topic: Suicide, Believe, Bombers, Suicide Bombers

I mean you think about the guy, the Nigerian guy, who was going to blow up the plane. He was wearing a pair of Fruit of the Lunatic. ... Guy was not too bright. He said that the reason he became a suicide bomber was to work his way up in the al Qaeda organization.

- David Letterman

topic: Suicide, Mean, Blow, Suicide Bombers

Israel has a people's army and a draft and therefore they should be considered legitimate targets. They are part of the occupying power, and Palestinians consider them targets for suicide bombers as well as other means.

- Mohamed Elmasry

topic: Suicide, Islamic, Mean, Suicide Bombers

My father was convinced the Taliban would hunt him down and kill him, but he again refused security from the police. 'If you go around with a lot of security the Taliban will use Kalashnikovs or suicide bombers and more people will be killed,' he said. 'At least I'll be killed alone.'

- Malala Yousafzai

source: Malala Yousafzai (2013). “I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World (Young Readers Edition)”, p.209, Hachette UK

topic: Suicide, Powerful, Father, Suicide Bombers, Kalashnikov

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 the 18-21 range. "Kyle, I never would have guessed that when you were up in your bedroom playing World of Warcraft all through your teens, you were, in fact, becoming an expert on the films of Jean-Luc Godard.

- Douglas Coupland

topic: Suicide, Warrior, People, Recruit, Suicide Bombers

John Walker, while he was in Afghanistan, told people his goal was to have four wives. ... Do we need any further proof that this guy is out of his mind? Four wives? That's how al Qaeda gets you to become a suicide bomber.

- David Letterman

topic: Suicide, Goal, Wife, Suicide Bombers

Iran can recruit hundreds of suicide bombers a day. Suicide is an invincible weapon. Suicide bombers in this land showed us the way, and they enlighten our future.

- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

topic: Suicide, Iran, Land, Suicide Bombers, Disturbing

In fact, the Iraqi foreign minister admitted in March 2003 that Iraqi funds were sent to families of Palestinian suicide bombers who attacked and killed innocent Israeli citizens, and also 12 Americans in Israel in 2003.

- Jim Gerlach

topic: Suicide, Israel, Bombers, Suicide Bombers

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

topic: Suicide, Hero, Views, Suicide Bombers

For all their current prestige, Osama bin Laden and the suicide bombers are still regarded in all but the most desperate districts of Gaza or Peshawar as romantics with little chance of more than symbolic victories, however bloody and brutal. That gives both the Middle East and the West a small and distant hope of security.

- James Buchan

topic: Suicide, Giving, Victory, Symbolic, Suicide Bombers

Even the Soviet Union, with its huge nuclear arsenal, was a threat that could be deterred by the prospect of retaliation. But suicide bombers cannot be deterred. They can only be annihilated - preemptively and unilaterally, if necessary.

- Thomas Sowell

topic: Suicide, Bombers, Nuclear, Soviet Union, Suicide Bombers

Saddam Hussein had a lengthy history of reckless and sudden aggression. He cultivated ties to terror -- hosting the Abu Nidal organization, supporting terrorists, and making payments to the families of suicide bombers. He also had an established relationship with Al Qaida -- providing training to Al Qaida members in areas of poisons, gases and conventional bombs. He built, possessed, and used weapons of mass destruction.

- Dick Cheney

topic: Suicide, Mass Destruction, Organization, Suicide Bombers

Israel will never get true security and safety through oppressing another people. A true peace can ultimately be built only on justice. We condemn the violence of suicide bombers, and we condemn the corruption of young minds taught hatred; but we also condemn the violence of military incursions in the occupied lands, and the inhumanity that won't let ambulances reach the injured.

- Desmond Tutu

source: "Apartheid in the Holy Land". www.theguardian.com. April 29, 2002.

topic: Suicide, Military, Land, True Peace, Ambulance

I am so sick of reading about another car bomb, another suicide bomber, another 10, 20, 30, 70, 100 people dead in a day, both Americans and Iraqis.

- Rosanne Cash

topic: Suicide, Reading, People, Suicide Bombers, So Sick

Guantanamo Bay houses enemy combatants ranging from terrorist trainers and recruiters to bomb makers, would-be suicide bombers, and terrorist financiers.

- Chris Chocola

topic: Suicide, House, Enemy, Suicide Bombers, Guantanamo

Suicide bombers caused us more than 50 percent of our casualties. The fence works. There is a decline in the number of those terrorist attacks against Israelis.

- Silvan Shalom

topic: Suicide, Numbers, Bombers, Suicide Bombers, Terrorist Attacks

Saddam Hussein has raised the amount going to suicide bombers from $10 thousand dollars to $25 thousand. What's next, a health care plan?

- Jay Leno

topic: Suicide, Dollars, Bombers, Suicide Bombers

The Israelis have suffered a great deal, we must condemn suicide bombers, and we must never say that the plight of the Palestinians justifies this terrible thing.

- George Carey

source: "Archbishop of Canterbury speaks out". Interview with Stephen Crittenden, www.abc.net.au. September 25, 2002.

topic: Suicide, Plight, Bombers, Suicide Bombers

As Luxenberg's work has only recently been published we must await its scholarly assessment before we can pass any judgements. But if his analysis is correct then suicide bombers, or rather prospective martyrs, would do well to abandon their culture of death, and instead concentrate on getting laid 72 times in this world, unless of course they would really prefer chilled or white raisins, according to their taste, in the next.

- Ibn Warraq

source: "Virgins? What virgins?" by Ibn Warraq, www.theguardian.com. January 11, 2002.

topic: Suicide, Assessment, White, Raisins, Suicide Bombers

The reprisal against the suicide bomber does not bring peace. There is a suicide bomber, a reprisal and then a counter-reprisal. And it just goes on and on.

- Desmond Tutu

topic: Suicide, Doe, Bombers, Suicide Bombers, Reprisal

Traditional Muslims stand at the foot of the ladder, living in guilt for not really practicing Islam. At the top are fundamentalists, the ones you see in the news killing women and children for the glory of the god of the Qur'an. Moderates are somewhere in between. A moderate Muslim is actually more dangerous than a fundamentalist, however, because he appears to be harmless, and you can never tell when he has taken that next step toward the top. Most suicide bombers began as moderates.

- Mosab Hassan Yousef

topic: Suicide, Children, Taken, Suicide Bombers

I don't just denounce suicide bombers. I denounce those governments which use indiscriminate slaughter to advance their foreign policy.

- Ken Livingstone

source: "London mayor: West created terror", www.cnn.com. July 20, 2005.

topic: Suicide, Government, Bombers, Suicide Bombers