All Jurgen Habermas Quotes
- I consider Bush's decision to call for a war against terrorism a serious mistake. He is elevating these criminals to the status of war enemies,… Any
- Historically, terrorism falls in a category different from crimes that concern a criminal court judge. Categories
- The clever, albeit fragile, coalition against terrorism brought together by the U.S. government might be able to advance the transition from classical international law to… Able
- The uncertainty of the danger belongs to the essence of terrorism. Belongs
- Positivism stands or falls with the principle of scientism, that is that the meaning of knowledge is defined by what the sciences do and can… Adequately
- Disappointment over nationalistic authoritarian regimes may have contributed to the fact that today religion offers a new and subjectively more convincing language for old political… Authoritarian
- Since our complex societies are highly susceptible to interferences and accidents, they certainly offer ideal opportunities for a prompt disruption of normal activities. Accidents
- If the September 11 terror attack is supposed to constitute a caesura in world history, it must be able to stand comparison to other events… Able
- Some of those drawn into the holy war had been secular nationalists only a few years before. If one looks at the biographies of these… Been
- From a moral point of view, there is no excuse for terrorist acts, regardless of the motive or the situation under which they are carried… Acts
- I take as my fundamental starting point the fundamental distinction between work and interaction Distinction
- A threatened nation can react to uncertain dangers solely through administrative channels, to the truly embarrassing situation of perhaps overreacting Administrative
- Partisans fight on familiar territory with professed political objectives to conquer power. This is what distinguishes them from terrorists Conquer
- The misery in war-torn Afghanistan is reminiscent of images from the Thirty Years' War Afghanistan
- Today's Islamic fundamentalism is also a cover for political motifs. We should not overlook the political motifs we encounter in forms of religious fanaticism Cover
- I cannot imagine a context that would some day, in some manner, make the monstrous crime of September 11 an understandable or comprehensible political act Act
- Instead of the international police action we had hoped for during the war in Kosovo, there are wars again - conducted with state-of-the-art technology, but… Action
- The scenarios of biological or chemical warfare painted in detail by the American media during the months after September 11 only betray the inability of… American
- What was new was the symbolic force of the targets struck. The attackers did not just physically cause the highest buildings in Manhattan to collapse;… American
- Perhaps September 11 could be called the first historic world event in the strictest sense: the impact, the explosion, the slow collapse - a gruesome… Called
- The state is in danger of falling into disrepute due to the evidence of its inadequate resources. Danger
- Each murder is one too many. Each
- Manhattan... capital of the 20th century, a city that has fascinated me for more than three decades. Capital
- One never really knows who one's enemy is. Enemy
- Global terrorism is extreme both in its lack of realistic goals and in its cynical exploitation of the vulnerability of complex systems. Both