Electronic communication makes possible what has previously been excluded: namely, active, simultaneous and reciprocal contact between individuals ac…

- Ulrich Beck

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 attac…

- Ulrich Beck

Nonetheless, we continue to be obsessed with finding or inventing a European nation which, as in the nation state, guarantees homogeneity and thus an…

- Ulrich Beck

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

- Ulrich Beck

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: at…

- Ulrich Beck

Accordingly, globalization is not only something that will concern and threaten us in the future, but something that is taking place in the present a…

- Ulrich Beck

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

- Ulrich Beck

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 fe…

- Ulrich Beck

The idea that you surrender your identity when you relinquish national powers is unhelpful. No, indeed, precisely the opposite is the case: if done i…

- Ulrich Beck