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.

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.

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 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.

Unless it was Cokie, gifts from men weren't free.

I went to Goucher College in Maryland for the best possible reasons - to learn - but then I dropped out at 19 for the best possible reasons - to become a writer.

I don't think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don't think they know how to run a trailer park.

People complain about the bad things that happen to em that they don't deserve but they seldom mention the good. About what they done to deserve them things.

If you want to be a good conversationalist, be a good listener. To be interesting, be interested.

I make little distinction between those who commit evil and those who stand by and do nothing.

I immediately suspected there was much more to it than was being said.

The love of lucre, though sometimes carried to a ridiculous excess, a vicious excess, is the grand cause of prosperity to all States.

Responsibility means to perform our service properly,with proper attitude, behavior and words.

All that you really want in life is to change how you feel.