Apocalypse Quote by Anthony Giddens Download Open image “Apocalypse has become banal, a set of statistical risk parameters to everyone's existence.” — Anthony Giddens ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Apocalypse Existence Parameters Risk
The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Prophesying catastrophe is incredibly banal. The more original move is to assume that it has already happened. — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
“our early warning system evolved in an era of immediacy, when threats were of the tiger-in-the-bush variety. Things have changed since. Many of today’s… — Peter H. Diamandis Copy Share Image
Forget about war or disease or poverty. The apocalypse is when America's elected president is no longer supervised by the unelected ruling establishment. — Steve Hilton Copy Share Image
Any way you want to slice it, the thing about the apocalypse is, since the beginning of time, it's the projection of mankind's worst… — John Hillcoat Copy Share Image
The physical and emotional qualifications to survive an apocalypse are naturally equalizing. — Lauren Cohan Copy Share Image
There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them — Friedrich Durrenmatt Copy Share Image
We are all vulnerable to the tendency to overestimate the likelihood of vivid, cognitively available risks rather than statistically likelier, but less salient, risks. — Karl Iagnemma Copy Share Image
The risk climate of modernity is thus unsettling for everyone: no one escapes. — Anthony Giddens Copy Share Image
In today's rapidly changing world, the people who are not taking risk are the risk takers. — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
The body is thus not simply an 'entity', but is experienced as a practical mode of coping with external situations and events. — Anthony Giddens Copy Share Image
The body is an object in which we are all privileged, or doomed, to dwell, the source of feelings of well-being and pleasure, but… — Anthony Giddens Copy Share Image
High-consequence risks form one particular segment of the generalised 'climate of risk' characteristic of late modernity - one characterised by regular shifts in knowledge-claims… — Anthony Giddens Copy Share Image
High-consequence risks have a distinctive quality. The more calamitous the hazards they involve, the less we have any real experience of what we risk:… — Anthony Giddens Copy Share Image
To live in the universe of high modernity is to live in an environment of chance and risk, the ineveitable concomitants of a system… — Anthony Giddens Copy Share Image
“Old Conservatism, at least in its more principled forms, is, as has been aptly said, the ‘other God that failed’ alongside Communism and radical… — Anthony Giddens Copy Share Image
Both life-planning and the adoption of lifestyle options become (in principle) integrated with bodily regimes. It would be quite short-sighted to see this phenomenon… — Anthony Giddens Copy Share Image
Abstract systems depend on trust, yet they provide none of the moral rewards which can be obtained from personalised trust, or were often available… — Anthony Giddens Copy Share Image
The risk climate of modernity is thus unsettling for everyone: no one escapes. — Anthony Giddens Copy Share Image
The flow of action continually produces consequences which are unintended by actors, and these unintended consequences also may form unacknowledged conditions of actions in… — Anthony Giddens Copy Share Image
The sustaining of life, in a bodily sense as well as in the sense of psychological health, is inherently subject to risk. — Anthony Giddens Copy Share Image
To a greater or lesser degree, the project of the self becomes translated into one of the possession of desired goods and the pursuit… — Anthony Giddens Copy Share Image
A South Korean inventor has finally created the robot that mankind has been waiting for. Scientists who have been worried about the robot apocalypse… — Mike Pesca Copy Share Image
If it makes you feel any better, this isn't my first apocalypse. There is hope. — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Nuclear apocalypse-who do you need? Actors are probably not top of the list. What can I do for you? I can pretend to be… — Christian Bale Copy Share Image
In the New Testament alone there are Gospels, acts, epistles, and an apocalypse. Gospels contain literary forms like miracles, parables, pronouncements, proverbs, farewell discourses,… — Craig Blomberg Copy Share Image
The day came. The wrath descended. Sin, guilt, and retribution? The manic psychoses of those entities we referred to as states, institutions, systems -… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“I once fed a dog-fight operator to the dogs he had abused for so long, and do you want to know something? It felt… — Cedric Nye Copy Share Image
“You and I are victims of the same disease. We're fighting the same war, just different battles in different theaters, and it's way too… — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
I've been around long enough now and have learned to be flexible enough to know that every movie isn't going to be Apocalypse Now… — Laurence Fishburne Copy Share Image
We belong to an age where apocalypse is our daily bread, coffee's black, and we know we're part of the abyss. Red Spider White… — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
If anything, global response to the Rising only confirmed something that many Australians had quietly believed for quite some time: If forced to live… — Mira Grant Copy Share Image
For most affairs, this eventually becomes the most fundamental of questions, the only one that matters: Do we love each other more than the… — Brady Udall Copy Share Image
The things that I have loved have always been those extremes where there has been some kind of apocalypse in the person's life, and… — Scott McClanahan Copy Share Image