"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."

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Source : "Risky business". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2006.

Ulrich Beck

#Believe Quotes #Hysteria Quotes #Risk Quotes

“If thou art indeed my father, then hast thou stained thy sword in the life-blood of thy son. And thous didst it of thine obstinacy. For I sought to turn thee unto love, and I implored of thee thy name, for I thought to behold in thee the tokens recounted of my mother. But I appealed unto thy heart in vain, and now is the time gone for meeting.”
“Depiction can override truth the same way that memory can override experience.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Those poll ratings go south, I think you have a Republican Party ready to begin different kinds of hearings than [Jason] Chaffetz is unwilling to have.”

Source : Source: abcnews.go.com
“What has ISIS done to the women in the cities they have conquered? Direct enslavement, humiliation and turning women into concubines to be bought and sold. This was something nobody expected to see in Iraq.”
“Power must never be trusted without a check.”
“You talk to the farmers, the ranchers, our small community bankers, and boy, one of the No. 1 issues is the regulations coming out of Washington.”

Source : "MT-1: Daines-Gillan Race Keeps Low Profile". www.realclearpolitics.com. October 12, 2012.
“The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.”
“Do what you love, love what you do, and with all your heart give yourself to it.”

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