Ulrich Beck Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: sociologist
  • Nationality: german
  • Birth: May 15, 1944 - January 1, 2015

Topics

BusinessPowerSciencePoliticsLaw

I'm very grateful to Italian football for the opportunity it has given me.

Mauro Icardi

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I think it is a mistake to identify a movie according to its language, as if movies were literature.

Jean-Jacques Annaud

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I have to say that flying on Air Force One sort of spoils you for coach on a regular airline.

Ron Reagan

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I've always wanted to learn how to hook rugs. A wonderful artist named Leslie Giuliani taught me how. The nice thing is you can change it as you go along.

Roz Chast

ChangeMeLearnYouArtistNice

On the professional side, those 18 years on the farm instilled my love for agriculture.

Mike Johanns

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I've always been a creative speller and never achieved good grades in school. I graduated from high school but didn't have the opportunity to attend college, so I did what young women my age did at the time - I married.

Debbie Macomber

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I'd go to lesbian parties. I felt like I wasn't hard enough to be butch, but I wasn't wearing heels and a skirt - I wasn't femme - so I felt like I was sort of invisible.

Dee Rees

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I hope the EPA will listen to the many votes over the years in Congress opposing cap-and-trade and rescind that proposed rule.

Chris Gibson

HopeCongressWillListenOverRule

Being a superhero is a lot of fun.

Chris Hemsworth

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Larry Summers, I think, he had a long history of arrogance and relative ignorance about poor people's culture and working people's culture and so forth.

Cornel West

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Golf challenges you mentally at any age, and when you become my age, it's a challenge physically to try to make your game work as well as it ever did. That's close to impossible, but that doesn't keep you from trying to hit the ball where you used to hit it and make the putts you used to make all the time.

Arnold Palmer

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There are 18,000 police agencies in this country. There's no network requiring them to operate according to the same guidelines.

Wyatt Cenac

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