The difficulties of living in a secular risk culture are compounded by the importance of lifestyle choices.

'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 risk climate of modernity is thus unsettling for everyone: no one escapes.

The new mixed economy looks...for a synergy between public and private sectors.

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.

When you believe the TRUTH, there's an incredible freedom. You're free to live without fear.

Remembering lies is a full-time job, one best to quit.

Our life is full of empty space.

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Say planet rock, it's a sure shot.

I mean you ACRES of harm,' Dalrymple growled. 'Untold QUANTITIES of harm. I will visit a whole CONTINENT of harm upon you before we are through.

I think he intends to run for president... I think Senator McCain cares about the opinions of New Hampshire voters.

The transaction between writer and reader is human civilization's most dazzling feat, yet it's such a part of our lives that it's, well, prosaic.

Without an educated populace, democracy cannot sustain itself.

Lebanon is our country, and in it we are staying.