German - Philosopher | June 18, 1929 -
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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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After September 11, the European governments have completely failed. They are incapable of seeing beyond their own national scope of interests.
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