Quotes about September 11

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It’s possible to be flippant here, when Jihadists fly aircraft into buildings they shout God is Great, what do atheists — Martin Amis, The Second Plane: 14 Responses to September 11
Novelists don't normally write about what's going on — they write about what's not going on.
Here we are then, I was thinking, in a war to the finish between everything I love and everything I hate. Fine. We will — Christopher Hitchens
As to the 'Left' I'll say briefly why this was the finish for me. Here is American society, attacked under open skies in — Christopher Hitchens, Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left
To be against rationalization is not the same as to be opposed to reasoning. — Christopher Hitchens, Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left
Before Sept. 11, the idea that Americans would voluntarily agree to live their lives under the gaze of a network of biom — Jeffrey Rosen
Then, one sunny September morning, the illusion of a personal God that I tried so hard to believe in, exploded over the — Nathan Phelps
I grieved three thousand times. Then I grieved for myself, a lonely woman without the honor given to the wives of the fa — Susan Abulhawa, Mornings in Jenin
It is a neglected but essential fact that we cannot appreciate the relationship between religion and violence unless we — Jack David Eller, Cruel Creeds, Virtuous Violence: Religious Violence Across Culture and History
I define success as being the best, authentic me that I can be. — Leeky Behrman, The Choices We Make: A Memoir about Surviving and a Journey to Love & Happiness
September 11, 2001: Citizens of the U.S., besieged by terror’s sting,rose up, weeping glory, as if on eagles’ wings.--fr — Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams
If there is any solace to be found in the carnage of September 11th, may I find it in understanding that the potential t — Craig D. Lounsbrough
[T]his is an enemy for life, as well as an enemy of life. — Christopher Hitchens
What we have here is a war—the war of matter and spirit. In the classical era, spirit was in harmony with matter. Matter — Giannina Braschi