 When they come to Europe, they are confronted by still closed borders. Thus, the concept of open borders is a very selective concept, one that is not taken seriously at all in the experience of non-Europeans. |
| The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion. |
| We are living in a world that is beyond controllability. |
| In the first instance, therefore, global terrorism created a kind of global community sharing a common fate, something we had previously considered impossible. |
| 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. |
| Global conditions are far too complex to be able to imagine that they could ever be really controlled by one power. |
| I held a conference in Harvard where Americans said they didn't believe in risk. They thought it was just European hysteria. Then the terrorist attacks happened and there was a complete conversion. Suddenly terrorism was the central risk. |
| And therefore we must seek dialogue in this networked world. We must ask which voice was actually attempting to make itself heard and saw no other possibility of gaining a hearing. To that extent, for a while this also represented a forced opening of a cosmopolitan view. |
