Jurgen Habermas Quotes About September 11

Quotes about: September 11

• Perhaps September 11 could be called the first historic world event in the strictest sense: the impact, the explosion, the slow collapse - a gruesome reality literally took place in front of a global public.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Reality, Impact, House

• The scenarios of biological or chemical warfare painted in detail by the American media during the months after September 11...only betray the inability of the government to determine the magnitude of the danger.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Betrayal, Government, Media

  "Philosophy in a Time of Terror: Dialogues with Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida". Book by Giovanna Borradori, 2004.

• After September 11, the European governments have completely failed. They are incapable of seeing beyond their own national scope of interests.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Government, September 11, Scope

• Perhaps at a later point important developments will be traced back to September 11. But for now we do not know which of the many scenarios will actually hold in the future.

  Jurgen Habermas

  September 11, Important, Development

  "Philosophy in a Time of Terror". Book by Giovanna Borradori, Jacques Derrida, and Jürgen Habermas, www.berfrois.com. 2003.

• 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

  Impact, Terror Attacks, Historical

• 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

  Jurgen Habermas

  Political, September 11, Imagine

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