Jürgen Habermas

“Communicative reason is not a capacity of the isolated subject but a medium of intersubjective relations.”

“Everyday communication is based on a cooperative search for truth.”

“The public use of reason is the source of all authority.”

“The public sphere is a realm of our social life in which something approaching public opinion can be formed.”

“Solidarity is the other side of justice.”

“Only those norms are valid to which all affected persons could agree as participants in a rational discourse.”

“The politician should be a good listener and should be able to change his or her mind.”

“What is at stake is the memory of a suffering that is not to be compensated.”

“Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent.”

“The lifeworld is the intuitively present, in this sense, unproblematic, background of communicative action.”

“A 'post-truth' politics would be the end of democracy.”

“The idea of a cosmopolitan order is an old one, but it is not an old-fashioned one.”

“Language is also a medium of domination and social force. It serves to legitimize relations of organized power.”

“The unfinished project of modernity is to realize the universal, rational, and humane principles that were first articulated in the Enlightenment.”

“A constitution is not something that is given, but something that is made.”