One Never Really Knows Who One's Enemy

As Medium For Reaching Understanding, Speech Acts Serve: A) To Establish And Renew Interpersonal Relations, Whereby The Speaker Takes Up A Relation To Something In The World Of Legitimate Social Orders; B) To Represent States And Events, Whereby The Speaker Takes Up A Relation To Something In The World Of Existing States Of Affairs; C) To Manifest Experiences That Is, To Represent Oneself- Whereby The Speaker Takes Up A Relation To Something In The Subjective World To Which He Has Privileged Access.

Global Terrorism Is Extreme Both In Its Lack Of Realistic Goals And In Its Cynical Exploitation Of The Vulnerability Of Complex Systems.

Subjects Who Reciprocally Recognize Each Other As Such, Must Consider Each Other As Identical, Insofar As They Both Take Up The Position Of Subject; They Must At All Times Subsume Themselves And The Other Under The Same Category. At The Same Time, The Relation Of Reciprocity Of Recognition Demands The Non-identity Of One And The Other, Both Must Also Maintain Their Absolute Difference, For To Be A Subject Implies The Claim Of Individuation.

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

Manhattan... Capital Of The 20th Century, A City That Has Fascinated Me For More Than Three Decades.