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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 out.

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

The uncertainty of the danger belongs to the essence of terrorism.

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

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

One never really knows who one's enemy is.

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

Partisans fight on familiar territory with professed political objectives to conquer power. This is what distinguishes them from terrorists.

The task of universal pragmatics is to identify and reconstruct universal conditions of possible mutual understanding.

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

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

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

I take as my fundamental starting point the fundamental distinction between work and interaction

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

Historically, terrorism falls in a category different from crimes that concern a criminal court judge.

Each murder is one too many.

Only by externalization, by entering into social relationships, can we develop the interiority of our own person.