The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.

Europe itself is an embodiment of this diversity.

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.

We are living in a world that is beyond controllability.

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.

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.

Initially, the horrific images of September 11th triggered an enormous wave of solidarity.

Fear and greatness cannot exist within the same space.

Mom means miracles of a magical life.

Honesty scares quite a lot of people.

What I really am is a homebody. I was a homebody even before I had a family. My days are filled with home stuff.

What has ever threatened our liberty and prosperity save and except this institution of Slavery?

You can't get down and think things won't get better or they definitely won't.

When you broadcast your book reading voluntarily, it creates moments of fascinating serendipity.

Our hopes, desires and ambitions are powerful forces existing within us for the shaping of the future. They are the generating forces that create the future.

If you have no money, men won't care for you, women won't love you; won't, that is, care for you or love you the last little bit that matters.

On the day I was born, the nurses gathered around, to gaze in wide wonder at the joy they had found.