1. “Global terrorism is extreme both in its lack of realistic goals and in its cynical exploitation of the vulnerability of complex systems.”
2. “From a moral point of view, there is no excuse for terrorists acts, regardless of the motive or the situation under which they are carried out.”
3. “Historically, terrorism falls in a category different from crimes that concern a criminal court judge.”
4. “The speaker must choose a comprehensible expression so that speaker and hearer can understand one another.”
5. “One never really knows who one’s enemy is.”
6. “Reaching and understanding is the process of bringing about an agreement on the presupposed basis of validity claims that are mutually recognized.”
7. “Each murder is one too many.”
8. “The uncertainty of the danger belongs to the essence of terrorism.”
9. “The state is in danger of falling into disrepute due to the evidence of its inadequate resources.”
10. “The task of universal pragmatics is to identify and reconstruct universal conditions of possible mutual understanding.”
