Jurgen Habermas

The state is in danger of falling into disrepute due to the evidence of its inadequate resources.

— Jurgen Habermas

Since the intervention in Afghanistan, we suddenly began to notice when, in political discussions, we found ourselves only among Europeans or Israelis.

— Jurgen Habermas

Global terrorism is extreme both in its lack of realistic goals and in its cynical exploitation of the vulnerability of complex systems.

— Jurgen Habermas

“For the normative self-understanding of modernity, Christianity has functioned as more than just a precursor or catalyst. Universalistic egalitarianism, from which sprang…

— Jürgen Habermas

Osama bin Laden, the person, more likely serves the function of a stand-in. Compare the new terrorists with partisans or conventional terrorists…

— Jurgen Habermas

“Today, the language of the market penetrates every pore and forces every interpersonal relation into the schema of individual preference.”

— Jürgen Habermas

The usage of the words "public" and "public sphere" betrays a multiplicity of concurrent meanings. Their origins go back to various historical…

— Jurgen Habermas

“Only one who takes over his own life history can see in it the realization of his self. Responsibility to take over…

— Jürgen Habermas

“[Jürgen Habermas' obituary to friend and philosopher, Richard Rorty] One small autobiographical piece by Rorty bears the title 'Wild Orchids and Trotsky.'…

— Jürgen Habermas

After September 11, the European governments have completely failed. They are incapable of seeing beyond their own national scope of interests.

— Jurgen Habermas

Positivism stands or falls with the principle of scientism, that is that the meaning of knowledge is defined by what the sciences…

— Jurgen Habermas

Perhaps September 11 could be called the first historic world event in the strictest sense: the impact, the explosion, the slow collapse…

— Jurgen Habermas

I cannot imagine a context that would some day, in some manner, make the monstrous crime of September 11 an understandable or…

— Jurgen Habermas

Reaching and understanding is the process of bringing about an agreement on the presupposed basis of validity claims that are mutually recognized.

— Jurgen Habermas

The misery in war-torn Afghanistan is reminiscent of images from the Thirty Years' War

— Jurgen Habermas

The clever, albeit fragile, coalition against terrorism brought together by the U.S. government might be able to advance the transition from classical…

— Jurgen Habermas

The only knowledge that can truly orient action is knowledge that frees itself from mere human interests and is based in Ideas…

— Jurgen Habermas

“From the structure of language comes the explanation of why the human spirit is condemned to an odyssey - why it first…

— Jürgen Habermas

Manhattan... capital of the 20th century, a city that has fascinated me for more than three decades.

— Jurgen Habermas

Norms appearing in the form of law entitle actors to exercise their rights or liberties. However, one cannot determine which of these…

— Jurgen Habermas

From a moral point of view, there is no excuse for terrorist acts, regardless of the motive or the situation under which…

— Jurgen Habermas

Subjects who reciprocally recognize each other as such, must consider each other as identical, insofar as they both take up the position…

— Jurgen Habermas

In the U.S.A. or Europe there is no realistic way to estimate the type, magnitude, or probability of the risk, nor any…

— Jurgen Habermas

The speaker must choose a comprehensible expression so that speaker and hearer can understand one another.

— Jurgen Habermas

Disappointment over nationalistic authoritarian regimes may have contributed to the fact that today religion offers a new and subjectively more convincing language…

— Jurgen Habermas