Ulrich Beck Quotes

• 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

  Topics in Politics, Power

  Tags in Science

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Concern, Globalization

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Concept, Forced

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Conference

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Inequality

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Response

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in World

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Inventing

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Proof

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Terrorism

• This experience actually means the very opposite: the largest military power was unable to stop such a sensitive attack and will be unable to rule out such a possibility in the future. Precisely this is the background to the United States’ military interventions.

  Ulrich Beck

  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Military

• That was the first major social sciences conference at which social scientists from all cultures wanted to reach a consensus on whether we can continue to pursue a national course in the social sciences or whether we need a cosmopolitan path that also connects us in a new way.

  Ulrich Beck

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Conference, Social

• Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit.

  Ulrich Beck

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in National

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Solutions

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Identity

• When they come to Europe, they are confronted by still closed borders. Thus, the concept of open borders is a very selective concept, one that is not taken seriously at all in the experience of non-Europeans.

  Ulrich Beck

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Confront

• 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

  Topics in Belief, Religion

  Tags in Sociology

• Initially, the horrific images of September 11th triggered an enormous wave of solidarity.

  Ulrich Beck

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Solidarity

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

  Ulrich Beck

  Topics in Power

  Tags in Conditions

• Europe itself is an embodiment of this diversity.

  Ulrich Beck

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Diversity

Ulrich Beck (28)

Birth:	15th May, 1944
Nationality:	German
Profession:	Sociologist

About

Ulrich Beck is a German sociologist who holds a professorship at Munich University and at the London School of Economics. Beck was born in the Pomeranian town of Stolp, Germany in 1944. From 1966 onwards he studied sociology, philosophy, psychology, and political science at Munich University.

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