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.

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 only knowledge that can truly orient action is knowledge that frees itself from mere human interests and is based in Ideas - in other words knowledge that has taken a theoretical attitude.

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

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

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

Each murder is one too many.

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

One never really knows who one's enemy is.

I shall develop the thesis that anyone acting communicatively must, in performing any speech act, raise universal validity claims and suppose that they can be vindicated.

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

The truth, the all moving magic, the single handed spark of it all wasI found art. And this saved my life.

They have to know, for we know, that reincarnation is real.

Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up.

I've gotten better at not making people feel uncomfortable with my shyness.

To say that God is love is in effect to say simply that love is God.

I agree 100% with the courts.We should open it [iPhone] up.

I'm good with all my roles, I've never had a bad role.

Yes, my kids come first, but as a parent I need to come to them with a fresh mind. I can't be too exhausted or too tired. And I am a better parent when I have more energy.

Why did the reindeer wear black boots? Because his brown ones were all muddy!

Las Vegas and I both grew up together, and all of a sudden I was doing things that no performer had ever done before.