" —Say she gets what she wants, and the regions give her more power. It would likely be temporary, right?

—Probably.

—Well, my guess is she doesn’t want it to be temporary. She’ll want to hit them hard. Arrest as many people as she can. Make sure no one dares to even put up a sign after that.

—Wouldn’t that just encourage the people blowing up things to blow up more things?

—Well, she’d have to get them too. All of them.

—On the planet? You can’t defeat terrorism on a whole planet, it’s not an army you can crush. That’s why it’s called terrorism. There’d always be one person left somewhere to blow up more things. "

― Sylvain Neuvel , Only Human (Themis Files, #3)