What Adam Smith Said About Terrorists

“It is not ease or pleasure, but always honour, of one kind or another, though frequently an honour very ill understood, that the terrorist really pursues.”

I altered the above only slightly from its original. Here’s what was actually said, “It is not ease or pleasure, but always honour, of one kind or another, though frequently an honour very ill understood, that the ambitious man really pursues.”

I lifted the line from “The Theory of Moral Sentiments” by Adam Smith (1723-1790).