#de

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

#control #define #even #law #mass

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

— Ulrich Beck

#basic #modernity #overcomes #religion #secular

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

#better #case #cooperation #done #idea

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. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#centralized #comes #complex #controlled #erroneous

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. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#complex #deal #education #jobs #need

We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment. ↗

— Hilaire Belloc

#distraction #fulfillment #wander

I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win-win situation. ↗

— Bo Bennett

#gracefully #i #into #like #manipulate

In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated. ↗

— Margaret Halsey

#defeated #educated #refusal #some

Certainly it is a different world for players nowadays. But it depends on the individual. ↗

— Franz Beckenbauer

#depends #different #different world #individual #nowadays

There is no excuse for waste, fraud, and abuse in the Defense Department budget. ↗

— John Bolton

#budget #defense #department #excuse #fraud