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

- Jurgen Habermas

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

- Jurgen Habermas

The uncertainty of the danger belongs to the essence of terrorism.

- Jurgen Habermas

One never really knows who one's enemy is.

- Jurgen Habermas

The bourgeois public sphere may be conceived above all as the sphere of private people come together as a public; they soon claimed the public sphere…

- Jurgen Habermas

The state is in danger of falling into disrepute due to the evidence of its inadequate resources.

- Jurgen Habermas

I shall develop the thesis that anyone acting communicatively must, in performing any speech act, raise universal validity claims and suppose that th…

- Jurgen Habermas

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

- Jurgen Habermas

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.

- Jurgen Habermas