Ulrich Beck
  • 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.

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

  • 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.

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

  • 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.