Ulrich Beck Quotes

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

  Ulrich Beck

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  Tags in Religions

• 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.

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  Topics in Power

  Tags in World, Idea

• 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.

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  Topics in Education, Job, Work

  Tags in Need

• Western countries in particular can today no longer be separated from Muslim societies, because they have them within themselves. They are themselves internally globalized.

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  Tags in Western

• We are living in a world that is beyond controllability.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Controlling

• And the terror itself is an example of the world’s uncontrollability.

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  Tags in Terror

• You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.

  Ulrich Beck

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Peace, War

• You could say that we are living in an internally globalized country.

  Ulrich Beck

  Topics in Country

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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