"The world has become so complex that the……" — Ulrich Beck
"The world has become so complex that the idea of a power in which everything comes together and can be controlled in a centralized way is now erroneous."
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Ulrich Beck
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28 Quotes by Ulrich Beck
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All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we…
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I held a conference in Harvard where Americans said they didn't believe in risk. They thought it was just European…
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But it then very soon became clear that the response of a war against terrorism, initially conceived of in a…
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In the first instance, therefore, global terrorism created a kind of global community sharing a common fate, something we had…
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Global conditions are far too complex to be able to imagine that they could ever be really controlled by one…
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And it also became clear that these conditions of inequality and historical injustice have given rise to a feeling of…
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Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit.
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The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.
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Initially, the horrific images of September 11th triggered an enormous wave of solidarity.
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Europe itself is an embodiment of this diversity.
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Western countries in particular can today no longer be separated from Muslim societies, because they have them within themselves. They…
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Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military…
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More Centralized Quotes
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The siren song of redistribution of wealth by centralized government never ceases for those who seek irreversible and unusurpable control…
— Unknown Author
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To bring about government by oligarchy, masquerading as democracy, it is fundamentally essential that practically all authority and control be…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Our Founding Fathers never meant for Washington, D.C. to be the fount of all wisdom. As a matter of fact…
— Rick Perry
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You have all these people in the city and everything has become centralized. If you live outside the city and…
— Edwidge Danticat
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Try this thought experiment. Pretend you're a tyrant. Among your many liberty-destroying objectives are extermination of blacks, Jews and Catholics.…
— Walter E. Williams
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War has all the characteristics of socialism most conservatives hate: Centralized power, state planning, false rationalism, restricted liberties, foolish optimism…
— Joseph Sobran
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The economic miracle that has been the United States was not produced by socialized enterprises, by government-unon-industry cartels or by…
— Milton Friedman
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Government-to-government foreign aid promotes statism, centralized planning, socialism, dependence, pauperization, inefficiency, and waste. It prolongs the poverty it is designed…
— Henry Hazlitt
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To block the construction of centralized power projects, as not being 'appropriate' or 'sustainable' is to condemn billions of people…
— Unknown Author
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No centralized government, no matter how big, how smart or how powerful, can effectively and efficiently control much of society…
— Charles Koch
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The most common objection to changes in public policy which would increase a user's control of housing at the expense…
— John Turner
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Millions of individuals making their own decisions in the marketplace will always allocate resources better than any centralized government planning…
— Ronald Reagan
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