"We are living in a world that is…" — Ulrich Beck
"We are living in a world that is beyond controllability."
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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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Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of…
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There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of…
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In everyday life, my wife is the most wonderful. We're in love with each other beyond belief.
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There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and…
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I like facts and data because they help me think clearly, beyond the cultural messages that I ingest unwittingly, and…
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The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality.
— Charles Baudelaire
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Beyond politics, the West is suffering from what can be called a crisis of brokenness - broken institutions, broken families…
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