From not the gravest of Divines, Accept for once some serious Lines.
We still lack a global definition of terrorism.
Police forces collect information to be used in a public court to get people convicted. Security services gather information that does not necessarily lead to people being prosecuted and in many cases needs to remain confidential.
If information ends up in the wrong hands, the lives of people very often are immediately at risk.
In intelligence work, there are limits to the amount of information one can share. Confidentiality is essential.
In situations of military conflict, civil strife, lawlessness, bad governance, and human rights violations, terrorists find it easier to hide, train and prepare their attacks.
Europe has a long and tragic history of mostly domestic terrorism.
Something struck me in Africa, in black Africa, where polygamy is legal: the solitary woman is the rule there, from at an extremely young age, and the children are always the mother's responsibility.
I only wanted to help my people.
Although the universe is under no obligation to make sense, students in pursuit of a Ph. D. are.
(there is) no other means of escaping from one's consciousness than to deny it, to look upon it as an organic disease of the terrestrial intelligence - a disease which we must endeavor to cure by an action which must appear to us an action of violent and willful madness, but which, on the other side of our appearances, is probably an action of health. ("Of Immortality")