Jurgen Habermas Quotes

I hate to say it but I was glad when they shot him. I don’t believe in terrorism or assassination but he could have become the American dictator.

There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America and the apartheid regime of South Africa.

The real terrorist threats are George W. Bush and his band of brown-shirted thugs.

I think the War on Terror is really absurd, especially coming from a country that is founded on terrorism.

I've always been fascinated by totalitarian regimes. I'm not an admirer of them.

Today, we talk a lot about terrorism, but we rarely talk about state terrorism.

Putin can't afford to leave the office because he will be in real danger of being prosecuted for things he and his people did during their stay in power.

Repressive regimes do not endure change willingly - and Venezuela is no exception.

Most of wars or military coups or invasions are done in the name of democracy against democracy.

America simply prefers to deal with dictators.

Saddam Hussein is no more terrible than Bush. He’s no more terrible than Bush’s father. No more terrible than Clinton.

Cheney is a terrorist. He terrorizes our enemies abroad and innocent citizens here at home indiscriminately

The level of destruction and terror and violence carried out by the powerful states far exceeds anything that can imaginably can be done by groups that are called terrorists and subnational groups.

The first time I played was in Buenos Aires - was in 1983. The dictatorship was in position.

When a dictatorship imprisons someone or makes them disappear, it's actually a very strategic move. We forget that. It's not as senseless as it seems. It's a way to silence someone, but also it's a way to silence their family as well, out of fear, and society by extension.

Saddam Hussein was undoubtedly a brutal dictator who had attacked Iraq's neighbours, repressed and killed many of his own people, and was in violation of obligations imposed by the U.N. Security Council.

The aspiring tyrants of today have not forgotten the lesson of 1933: that acts of terror - real or fake, provoked or accidental - can provide the occasion to deal a death blow to democracy.

Doing politics in Venezuela is a risk, and you can pay with your life.

To be consistent with this discourse of lifting up the military dictatorship in Brazil, the dictatorship that extended from 1964 to 1985, Bolsonaro, his whole life, has been uplifting not only the dictatorship itself but also the methods that the dictatorship used to stay in power, including torture.

As we respond to the assault of our enemy and defend our country, we must never break international laws. Crime can not be solved by more crime.

Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it.

Storm clouds of terror and dictatorship are gathering over the whole country... They must not be allowed to bring eternal night.

How a man who holds the entire population of a country as his prisoners, and punishes the families of those who escape, can be admired by people who call themselves liberals is one of the many wonders of the human mind's ability to rationalize. Yet such is the case with Fidel Castro.

I don't know of any government leaders that are killers.

Laws had a bad habit of being ignored or abrogated when societal push came to totalitarian shove.