Ulrich Beck famous quotes

04-17-2025

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.
-- Ulrich Beck

#Atheism #Belief #Realizing
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

#Military #Media #Law
And the terror itself is an example of the world's uncontrollability.
-- Ulrich Beck

#World #Example #Terror
And therefore we must seek dialogue in this networked world. We must ask which voice was actually attempting to make itself heard and saw no other possibility of gaining a hearing. To that extent, for a while this also represented a forced opening of a cosmopolitan view.
-- Ulrich Beck

#Views #Voice #World
In the final analysis, terror is also another proof of the fact that the superpower is not really a superpower. It was vulnerable.
-- Ulrich Beck

#Finals #Analysis #Facts
Nonetheless, we continue to be obsessed with finding or inventing a European nation which, as in the nation state, guarantees homogeneity and thus an appropriate form of democracy and centralized government.
-- Ulrich Beck

#Government #Democracy #Guarantees
The idea that you surrender your identity when you relinquish national powers is unhelpful. No, indeed, precisely the opposite is the case: if done in an intelligent way, you attain the sovereignty to better solve national problems in cooperation with others.
-- Ulrich Beck

#Intelligent #Opposites #Ideas
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

#Ideas #Together #Way
We are living in a world that is beyond controllability.
-- Ulrich Beck

#World
You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.
-- Ulrich Beck

#War #Lines #Normal
Western countries in particular can today no longer be separated from Muslim societies, because they have them within themselves. They are themselves internally globalized.
-- Ulrich Beck

#Country #Gdp #Today
Europe itself is an embodiment of this diversity.
-- Ulrich Beck

#Europe #Diversity #Embodiment
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.
-- Ulrich Beck

#Eye #Firsts #Culture
I held a conference in Harvard where Americans said they didn't believe in risk. They thought it was just European hysteria. Then the terrorist attacks happened and there was a complete conversion. Suddenly terrorism was the central risk.
-- Ulrich Beck

#Believe #Hysteria #Risk
But it then very soon became clear that the response of a war against terrorism, initially conceived of in a metaphorical sense, began to be taken increasingly seriously and came to entail waging a real war.
-- Ulrich Beck

#Real #War #Taken
In the first instance, therefore, global terrorism created a kind of global community sharing a common fate, something we had previously considered impossible.
-- Ulrich Beck

#Fate #Community #Firsts
Global conditions are far too complex to be able to imagine that they could ever be really controlled by one power.
-- Ulrich Beck

#Able #Imagine #Imagine That
And it also became clear that these conditions of inequality and historical injustice have given rise to a feeling of hate in the world - a deeply felt hate that cannot easily be overcome with a few good words.
-- Ulrich Beck

#Hate #Feelings #Historical
Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit.
-- Ulrich Beck

#Loss #Lost Friendship #Doe
The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.
-- Ulrich Beck

#Overcoming #Assumption #Secular
Initially, the horrific images of September 11th triggered an enormous wave of solidarity.
-- Ulrich Beck

#September 11 #Wave #Enormous
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.
-- Ulrich Beck

#Jobs #Needs #Protection

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