Ulrich Beck Quotes
Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.
All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many.
Accordingly, globalization is not only something that will concern and threaten us in the future, but something that is taking place in the present and to which we must first open our eyes.
Global conditions are far too complex to be able to imagine that they could ever be really controlled by one power.
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.
Initially, the horrific images of September 11th triggered an enormous wave of solidarity.
You need education. You need subsistence protection. We need jobs and social security. These are preconditions under which it will perhaps be possible to deal with these complex circumstances.
You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.
Western countries in particular can today no longer be separated from Muslim societies, because they have them within themselves. They are themselves internally globalized.
Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit.
In the final analysis, terror is also another proof of the fact that the superpower is not really a superpower. It was vulnerable.
In the first instance, therefore, global terrorism created a kind of global community sharing a common fate, something we had previously considered impossible.
I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too.