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

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.

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

Since our complex societies are highly susceptible to interferences and accidents, they certainly offer ideal opportunities for a prompt disruption of normal activities.

To say that the first casualty of war is truth is to miss the rather more important point that a principal weapon of war is lies.

Domestic terrorism is alive and well in the USA and it is masquerading as “Progress”.

Well, I did tell you I couldn’t give you a thing. Maybe you’ve just realised that Alistair can give the god damn world, and the pleasure of kissing his shiny slap-head every day!

I'd love to work with Joan Cusack again - I'm obsessed with Joan Cusack.

Beauty in the flesh will continue to rule the world.

The disciples found angels at the grave of Him they loved; and we should always find them too, but that our eyes are too full of tears for seeing.

We need to have faith in the people who are giving this movement direction to be smart enough to stay one step ahead of what's coming up next.

Why was it that pride and foolishness were so often close companions?

So while it seemed like you were seeing everything, you really weren't. Just bits and pieces that looked like a whole.

We will be drawing down some troops. If the president wants to try to turn that into the beginning of a success, he actually, I think, has some opportunity.