"Technically speaking, since our complex societies are highly susceptible to interferences and accidents,they certainly offer ideal opportunities for a prompt disruption of normal activities. These disruptions can, with minimum expense, have considerably destructive consequences. Global terrorism is extreme both in its lack of realistic goals and in its cynical exploitation of the vulnerability of complex systems."

Source : "Philosophy in a Time of Terror". Book by Giovanna Borradori, Jacques Derrida, Jürgen Habermas, 2003.

Jurgen Habermas

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“Pictorial art is relating tones to create beauty - like chords of music - not the faithful copying of the model.”
“Witchcraft is, and was, not... for everyone. Unless you have an attraction to the occult, a sense of wonder, a feeling that you can slip for a few minutes out of the world into the world of faery, it is of no use to you.”
“A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.”

Source : Penelope Fitzgerald (1978). “The Bookshop”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“We should look at the lives of all as at a mirror, and take from others an example for ourselves.”

Source : "Adelphoe". Play by Terence (Act III, Scene 3, line 62), 160 BC.
“Women in particular seem to say things like, "I'm sure I'd be the one screaming and not moving in an emergency." I don't think that's the case. People who've been through really horrible life-or-death situations say that nobody behaves the way they would have expected. But that said, there are predictors.”

Source : "Five Ways to Survive Any Disaster". Interview with Jen Quraishi, www.motherjones.com. June 9, 2008.
“If we are defined by reason and morality, then reason and morality must define our choices, even when animals are concerned. When people say, for example, that they like their veal or hot dogs too much to ever give them up, and yeah it's sad about the farms but that's just the way it is, reason hears in that the voice of gluttony. We can say that what makes a human being human is precisely the ability to understand that the suffering of an animal is more important than the taste of a treat.”
“I've always been a strong believer that you were born with the hair you've got, but have the ability to get the hair you want.”

Source : "Sherri Shepherd And Elise Neal Launch Hair Extension Collections, Plus Their Most Fabulous Hairstyles" by Julee Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 23, 2012.
“Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.”

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