We are living in a world that is beyond controllability.

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.

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

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.

We have to get you a haircut sometime today. You're starting to look like a sulky rock star." "Well, I am a rock star, " he said, deadpan

It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.

There's never a right time to say goodbye.

Is evolution just another name for God?

The heart is a temple wherein all truth resides.

there is no pleasure so sweet as the pleasure of spending money but the pleasure of writing is longer. There is no denying that.

Two Santa Clauses on the corner. How can you tell the Polish one? The one with the Easter basket.

That was the thing to remember about all monsters, They love to frighten people, but the minute you stare them down, they turn tail and run.

If Africa wasn't beautiful the white man wouldn't want it.

Try to dwell on the people you'd like to love, instead of all the people you do loathe.