“Although objectively greater demands are placed on this authority, it operates less as a public opinion giving a rational foundation to the exercise of political and social authority, the more it is generated for the purpose of an abstract vote that amounts to no more than an act of acclamation within a public sphere temporarily manufactured for show or manipulation.” GivingShowsPoliticalPurposeSocialOpinionGreaterAmountExerciseDemandAuthorityVoteFoundationRationalAbstractManipulationSpheresPublic Opinion Author:Jurgen Habermas
“Since the intervention in Afghanistan, we suddenly began to notice when, in political discussions, we found ourselves only among Europeans or Israelis.” PoliticalFoundDiscussionAfghanistanIntervention Author: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.” WellsCountryPoliticalDifferencesClearCrimeOrdinaryTerrorTerroristFormerRegimesRepresentatives Author:Jurgen Habermas
“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.” MayFactsTodayPoliticalLanguageOffersDisappointmentRegimesConvincingOrientationNationalisticAuthoritarian Government Author:Jurgen Habermas
“Partisans fight on familiar territory with professed political objectives to conquer power. This is what distinguishes them from terrorists” PoliticalFightingTerroristObjectivesFamiliarConquerTerritoryPartisans Author:Jurgen Habermas
“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” ShouldTodayFormPoliticalReligiousEncountersIslamicFundamentalismFanaticismMotifsReligious FanaticsIslamic Fundamentalism Author:Jurgen Habermas
“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” PoliticalImagineCrimeSeptemberMonstrousSeptember 11 Author:Jurgen Habermas
