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Jurgen Habermas (Philosopher)

Each murder is one too many.
— Jurgen Habermas man
The state is in danger of falling into disrepute due to the evidence of its inadequate resources.
— Jurgen Habermas anger
Global terrorism is extreme both in its lack of realistic goals and in its cynical exploitation of the vulnerability of complex systems.
— Jurgen Habermas goals
Since our complex societies are highly susceptible to interferences and accidents, they certainly offer ideal opportunities for a prompt disruption of normal activities.
— Jurgen Habermas opportunities
After September 11, the European governments have completely failed. They are incapable of seeing beyond their own national scope of interests.
— Jurgen Habermas men
Partisans fight on familiar territory with professed political objectives to conquer power. This is what distinguishes them from terrorists.
— Jurgen Habermas art
A threatened nation can react to uncertain dangers solely through administrative channels, to the truly embarrassing situation of perhaps overreacting.
— Jurgen Habermas anger
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.
— Jurgen Habermas man
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 of world historical impact.
— Jurgen Habermas history
Osama bin Laden, the person, more likely serves the function of a stand-in. Compare the new terrorists with partisans or conventional terrorists in Israel. These people often fight in a decentralized manner in small, autonomous units, too.
— Jurgen Habermas art
Perhaps at a later point important developments will be traced back to September 11. But for now we do not know which of the many scenarios will actually hold in the future.
— Jurgen Habermas future
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 orientations.
— Jurgen Habermas religion
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 the government to determine the magnitude of the danger.
— Jurgen Habermas war
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.
— Jurgen Habermas men
One never really knows who one's enemy is.
— Jurgen Habermas enemy
The uncertainty of the danger belongs to the essence of terrorism.
— Jurgen Habermas anger
Since the intervention in Afghanistan, we suddenly began to notice when, in political discussions, we found ourselves only among Europeans or Israelis.
— Jurgen Habermas political
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.
— Jurgen Habermas
The difference between political terror and ordinary crime becomes clear during the change of regimes, in which former terrorists become well-regarded representatives of their country.
— Jurgen Habermas change
Historically, terrorism falls in a category different from crimes that concern a criminal court judge.
— Jurgen Habermas crime
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, and one cannot lead a war against a network if the term war is to retain any definite meaning.
— Jurgen Habermas war
The misery in war-torn Afghanistan is reminiscent of images from the Thirty Years' War.
— Jurgen Habermas war
Perhaps September 11 could be called the first historic world event in the strictest sense: the impact, the explosion, the slow collapse - a gruesome reality literally took place in front of a global public.
— Jurgen Habermas reality
In the U.S.A. or Europe there is no realistic way to estimate the type, magnitude, or probability of the risk, nor any way to narrow down the potentially affected regions.
— Jurgen Habermas potential
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 people, remarkable continuities are revealed.
— Jurgen Habermas war

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