"The body is in some sense perennially at……" — Anthony Giddens
"The body is in some sense perennially at risk. The possibility of bodily injury is ever-present, even in the most familiar of surroundings."
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23 Quotes by Anthony Giddens
Anthony Giddens has 23 quotes on this site.
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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 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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The difficulties of living in a secular risk culture are compounded by the importance of lifestyle choices.
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More Bodily Quotes
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We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily…
— Saint Augustine
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The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.
— Sarah Bernhardt
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Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours…
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.
— Samuel Butler
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One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Is it not grotesque when the representatives of an antiquated myth-sorcery, who believes in trinity, angels, devils, hell, virgin-birth, bodily…
— Karlheinz Deschner
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The bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead is the crowning proof of Christianity. If the resurrection did not…
— Henry M. Morris
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A servant of the Lord stands bodily before men, but mentally he is knocking at the gates of heaven with…
— John Climacus
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Speech after long silence; it is right, All other lovers being estranged or dead . . . That we descant…
— William Butler Yeats
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It seems that nature, which has so wisely disposed our bodily organs with a view to our happiness, has also…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Three sorts of goods, Aristotle specified, contribute to happiness: goods of the soul, including moral and intellectual virtues and education;…
— Sissela Bok
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The body is only a garment. How many times you have changed your clothing in this life, yet because of…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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