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Top 25 Ulrich Beck Quotes (2025 Update)

Ulrich Beck Quote: “We are living in a world that is beyond controllability.”

1. “We are living in a world that is beyond controllability.”

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Ulrich Beck Quote: “The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.”

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

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Ulrich Beck Quote: “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.”

3. “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.”

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Ulrich Beck Quote: “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.”

4. “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.”

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Ulrich Beck Quote: “But where danger lurks, the saving powers also grow.”

5. “But where danger lurks, the saving powers also grow.”

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Ulrich Beck Quote: “Electronic communication makes possible what has previously been excluded: namely, active, simultaneous and reciprocal contact between individuals across all frontiers constituted by countries, religions and continents.”

6. “Electronic communication makes possible what has previously been excluded: namely, active, simultaneous and reciprocal contact between individuals across all frontiers constituted by countries, religions and continents.”

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Ulrich Beck Quote: “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.”

7. “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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Ulrich Beck Quote: “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.”

8. “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.”

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Ulrich Beck Quote: “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.”

9. “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.”

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Ulrich Beck Quote: “The theory of metamorphosis goes beyond theory of world risk society: it is not about the negative side effects of goods but about the positive side effects of bads.”

10. “The theory of metamorphosis goes beyond theory of world risk society: it is not about the negative side effects of goods but about the positive side effects of bads.”

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Ulrich Beck Quote: “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.”

11. “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.”

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Ulrich Beck Quote: “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.”

12. “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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Ulrich Beck Quote: “Europe itself is an embodiment of this diversity.”

13. “Europe itself is an embodiment of this diversity.”

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Ulrich Beck Quote: “You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.”

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

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Ulrich Beck Quote: “Climate risk teaches us that the nation is not the centre of the world.”

15. “Climate risk teaches us that the nation is not the centre of the world.”

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Ulrich Beck Quote: “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.”

16. “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.”

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Ulrich Beck Quote: “Global conditions are far too complex to be able to imagine that they could ever be really controlled by one power.”

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

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Ulrich Beck Quote: “Initially, the horrific images of September 11th triggered an enormous wave of solidarity.”

18. “Initially, the horrific images of September 11th triggered an enormous wave of solidarity.”

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Ulrich Beck Quote: “Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit.”

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

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Ulrich Beck Quote: “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.”

20. “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.”

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Ulrich Beck Quote: “And the terror itself is an example of the world’s uncontrollability.”

21. “And the terror itself is an example of the world’s uncontrollability.”

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Ulrich Beck Quote: “In the first instance, therefore, global terrorism created a kind of global community sharing a common fate, something we had previously considered impossible.”

22. “In the first instance, therefore, global terrorism created a kind of global community sharing a common fate, something we had previously considered impossible.”

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Ulrich Beck Quote: “In the final analysis, terror is also another proof of the fact that the superpower is not really a superpower. It was vulnerable.”

23. “In the final analysis, terror is also another proof of the fact that the superpower is not really a superpower. It was vulnerable.”

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Ulrich Beck Quote: “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.”

24. “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.”

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Ulrich Beck Quote: “Western countries in particular can today no longer be separated from Muslim societies, because they have them within themselves. They are themselves internally globalized.”

25. “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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