"Abstract systems depend on trust, yet they provide……" — Anthony Giddens
"Abstract systems depend on trust, yet they provide none of the moral rewards which can be obtained from personalised trust, or were often available in traditional settings from the moral frameworks within which everyday life was undertaken. Moreover, the wholesale penetration of abstract systems into daily life creates risks which the individual is not well placed to confront; high-consequence risks fall into this category. Greater interdependence, up to and including globally independent systems, means greater vulnerability when untoward events occur that affect those systems as a whole."
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23 Quotes by Anthony Giddens
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Martin Luther King did not stir his audience in 1963 by declaiming 'I have a nightmare'
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To live in the universe of high modernity is to live in an environment of chance and risk, the ineveitable…
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The body is thus not simply an 'entity', but is experienced as a practical mode of coping with external situations…
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Both life-planning and the adoption of lifestyle options become (in principle) integrated with bodily regimes. It would be quite short-sighted…
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Regimes are modes of self-discipline, but are not solely constituted by the orderings of convention in day-to-day life; they are…
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The body is in some sense perennially at risk. The possibility of bodily injury is ever-present, even in the most…
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The body is an object in which we are all privileged, or doomed, to dwell, the source of feelings of…
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The sustaining of life, in a bodily sense as well as in the sense of psychological health, is inherently subject…
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In a world of alternative lifestyle options, strategic life planning becomes of special importance. Like lifestyle patterns, life plans of…
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'Taking charge of one's life' involves risk, because it means confronting a diversity of open possibilities.
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To a greater or lesser degree, the project of the self becomes translated into one of the possession of desired…
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Achieving control over change, in respect to lifestyle, demands an engagement with the outer social world rather than a retreat…
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More Abstract Quotes
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To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
— Honore de Balzac
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I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really…
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
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In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
— Theodor Adorno
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None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
— Theodor Adorno
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Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some…
— Nicolas Cage
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Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still…
— Nicolas Cage
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I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.
— Eric Cantona
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Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
— Al Capp
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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change…
— Saul Alinsky
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'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would…
— Sam Abell
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Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply…
— John Dewey
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It is difficult to talk about fashion in the abstract, without a human body before my eyes, without drawings, without…
— Giorgio Armani
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