Anthony Giddens Quotes
'Taking charge of one's life' involves risk, because it means confronting a diversity of open possibilities.
Achieving control over change, in respect to lifestyle, demands an engagement with the outer social world rather than a retreat from it.
The difficulties of living in a secular risk culture are compounded by the importance of lifestyle choices.
The body is thus not simply an 'entity', but is experienced as a practical mode of coping with external situations and events.
Martin Luther King did not stir his audience in 1963 by declaiming 'I have a nightmare'
Apocalypse has become banal, a set of statistical risk parameters to everyone's existence.
Risk concerns future happenings - as related to present practices - and the colonising of the future therefore opens up new settings of risk, some of which are institutionally organised.
The sustaining of life, in a bodily sense as well as in the sense of psychological health, is inherently subject to risk.
The thesis that risk assessment itself is inherently risky is nowhere better borne out than in the area of high-consequence risks.
The body is in some sense perennially at risk. The possibility of bodily injury is ever-present, even in the most familiar of surroundings.