Author: Ulrich Beck

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Global conditions are far too complex to be able to imagine that they could ever be really controlled by one power.

Global conditions are far too complex to be able to imagine that they could ever be really controlled by one power.

- Ulrich Beck

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

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

- Ulrich Beck

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.

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.

- Ulrich Beck

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.

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.

- Ulrich Beck

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.

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.

- Ulrich Beck

We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more and more life situations.

We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more and more life situations.

- Ulrich Beck

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