“We are also faced with planetary devastation, the threat of nuclear conflict, the spreading catastrophe of AIDS and other deadly viruses, neoimperial zealotry, mass migrations of the disposed, political fanaticism, a reversion to Victorian-type economic inequalities, and a number of other potential catastrophes.”

“Terrorism now has a deadly momentum of it own. But there is a difference between regretting this tragically lost opportunity, and treating one’s enemies as mindless beasts whom no rational action could ever conceivably sway. for champions of this viewpoint, the only solution to terrorist violence is more violence. More violence breeds more terror, which in turn put more blameless lives at risk. The result of defining terrorism as evil is to exacerbate the problem; and to make the problem worse is to be complicit, however unwittingly, in the very barbarism you condemn.”
Terry Eagleton- On Evil