How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.
Interpretation
To combat terrorism, one must reject fear and refuse to be intimidated.
Salman Rushdie's quote emphasizes the importance of resilience and courage in the face of threats like terrorism. By suggesting that the key to defeating such fear is not to be terrorized, he highlights how allowing fear to control one's actions only empowers those who perpetrate violence and creates a cycle of intimidation and oppression.
In practice
This quote could be used in a speech about resilience in times of societal fear.
I've been fascinated by Machiavelli since I was very young. I've always felt that he had a bad rap from history, and that he was actually a person quite unlike what we now think of as Machiavellian. He was a republican. He disliked totalitarian government.
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faith without doubt is addiction
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It is God who enables us to return to life after tragedy-not by eradicating all suffering but by giving us the strength and the courage to heal what we can heal.
But if we have been willing to give our lives to this enterprise, which is for the honour of our country, I appeal to our countrymen to see that those who depend on us are properly cared for.
Loyalty and obedience to wisdom and justice are fine; but it is still finer to defy arbitrary power, unjustly and cruelly used--not on behalf of ourselves, but on behalf of others more helpless.
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