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Risk Quotes by Anthony Giddens
- To live in the universe of high modernity is to live in an environment of chance and risk, the ineveitable concomitants of a system geared…
- The body is in some sense perennially at risk. The possibility of bodily injury is ever-present, even in the most familiar of surroundings.
- The sustaining of life, in a bodily sense as well as in the sense of psychological health, is inherently subject to risk.
- 'Taking charge of one's life' involves risk, because it means confronting a diversity of open possibilities.
- The difficulties of living in a secular risk culture are compounded by the importance of lifestyle choices.
- 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 as…
- The risk climate of modernity is thus unsettling for everyone: no one escapes.
- 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: for…
- Risk concerns future happenings - as related to present practices - and the colonising of the future therefore opens up new settings of risk, some…
- [C]ultivated risk-taking represents an 'experiment with trust' (in the sense of basic trust) which consequently has implications for an individual's self-identity. (...) In cultivated risk-taking,…
- Thinking in terms of risk certainly has its unsettling aspects (...), but it is also a means of seeking to stabilise outcomes, a mode of…
- 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…
- The thesis that risk assessment itself is inherently risky is nowhere better borne out than in the area of high-consequence risks.
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