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

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 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

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

When banana's don't work, try a cookie.

Business art is the step that comes after Art. I started as a commercial artist, and I want to finish as a business artist.

Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.

I am not going to put my daughter under any sort of stresses.

Imagine the world so greatly magnified that particles of light look like twenty-four-pound cannon balls.

O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!

That was the trouble with so many reality programmes on television - everyone wanted fame these days without necessarily working at anything to achieve it.

You'll go insane if you try to have a picture-book house.

And by the way, showers. Look into them, Doug!

Perhaps you considered yourself an oracle, Mouthpiece of the dead, or of some god or other. Thirty years now I have labored To dredge the silt from your throat. I am none the wiser.