You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.

Western countries in particular can today no longer be separated from Muslim societies, because they have them within themselves. They are themselves internally globalized.

In the final analysis, terror is also another proof of the fact that the superpower is not really a superpower. It was vulnerable.

Nonetheless, we continue to be obsessed with finding or inventing a European nation which, as in the nation state, guarantees homogeneity and thus an appropriate form of democracy and centralized government.

In the first instance, therefore, global terrorism created a kind of global community sharing a common fate, something we had previously considered impossible.

We are living in a world that is beyond controllability.

Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.