Famous quotes containing the words september, terrorist and/or attacks:
“This seems a long while ago, and yet it happened since Milton wrote his Paradise Lost. But its antiquity is not the less great for that, for we do not regulate our historical time by the English standard, nor did the English by the Roman, nor the Roman by the Greek.... From this September afternoon, and from between these now cultivated shores, those times seemed more remote than the dark ages.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket. Revolution, legalitycounter-moves in the same game; forms of idleness at bottom identical.”
—Joseph Conrad (18571924)
“Neither the wrath of Heaven nor the attacks of enemies
are as fatal as Pleasure alone when she infects the mind.”
—Silius Italicus (26101)