Speech by Juergen Habermas accepting the Peace Price of the German Publishers and Booksellers Association Paulskirche, Frankfurt, 14 October 2001
Sueddeutsche Zeitung, 15 October 2001 <http://www.sueddeutsche.de/aktuell/sz/artikel86740.php> [translated from German by Kermit Snelson]
When current events become so overwhelming that they rip the choice of topic out of our own hands, so to speak, the John Waynes among us intellectuals are of course greatly tempted to compete instead as to who can be the quickest to shoot from the hip.
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