Bruce Hoffman famous quotes

One of the problems with the kill-or-capture metric is that it has often been to the exclusion of having a deeper, richer understanding of the movement, its origins, and our adversaries' mindset. The nuances are absolutely critical. Our adversaries are wedded to the ideology that informs and fuels their struggle, and, by not paying attention, we risk not knowing our enemy.
-- Bruce Hoffman

#Struggle #Knowing #Understanding

It could be coincidence. It's an extraordinarily short turnaround it's impossible to say at this point.
-- Bruce Hoffman

#Impossible #Coincidence #Turnaround

With the exception of weapons of mass destruction, there is no other type of attack that is more effective than suicide terrorism. The perception is that it's impossible to guard against.
-- Bruce Hoffman

#Suicide #Perception #Weapons

One of the most ignored dimensions of the Iraqi insurgency are the Iraqis themselves who are regularly abducted, held for ransom and sometimes executed.
-- Bruce Hoffman

#Ransom #Abduction #Dimensions

I think this is one of the major challenges that we face in the U.S. The major incidents in the U.S. have not conformed to our stereotype of an established terror organization attacking a major iconic landmark.
-- Bruce Hoffman

#Thinking #Organization #Challenges

Al-Qaeda's obituary has been written countless times over the decade. Each iteration has proved to be ephemeral, as the moment has continually shown itself to have a deeper bench than we imagine.
-- Bruce Hoffman

#Benches #Ephemeral #Als

The struggle of today is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also.

Winning the war on terrorism will also require a level of moral clarity that can provide a vision for struggling people and nations everywhere.

Man has become great through struggle

I never lost my belief, in the midst of setbacks which were not spared me during my period of struggle. Providence has had the last word and brought me success.

Not knowing all of the conventions of beauty, he [Tom Thomson] found it all beautiful.

The chance of failure is almost always better than the guarantee of never knowing.

Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.

A visual understanding of great composition and how to use a camera and expensive lenses can be learned, but drive and a real hunger for making photos and telling stories... I don't think that part can be learned. You either have that inside, or you don't.

The beginning of knowledge is the intention, then listening, then understanding, then action, then preservation, and then spreading it.

Can you imagine if you really let it in that you are not a problem to be solved in any way? Imagine you knew that anything that would tell you otherwise is just a movement of thought in the mind that says "Whatever is, isn't the way it is supposed to be." So the biggest act of compassion starts within. And when the self is no longer seen as a problem, this is called "the peace that passes all understanding."