Ulrich Beck Quotes

Every time you take a train, step into your car, walk into the shopping mall, go to the airport - every single time, something could happen. That's how terrorism works.

We respond to the unknown by trying to retreat from it, or trying to comprehend it, or trying to control it. The first approach is evident in longings for return to a simpler "risk-free" life that never was. The second is reflected in the fantasy of synoptic risk assessment: Measure the requisite probabilities and trade-offs, calculate the social risk-benefit function, and the common good will have been defined. The third approach is in the tradition of professional engineering. It serves us well but, as engineers have been among the first to point out, has met its match and more in the complex social problems it increasingly is called upon to address.

Since September 11, the U.S. has significantly improved its security to prevent another attack.

Terrorists always have the advantage of surprise.

People are becoming more accustomed to terrorism.

In the age of terror, there is less room for error.

If people knew the details about terrorism, they would not leave the house.

None of us live in a zero-risk world.

People are used to dealing with risk.

It's only a risk if you think there's a chance of failure.

People say, 'Are you insane?' But the most successful climbers are the most calculating, with the most refined sense of risk. They're hyper-conscious of safety. They're the least insane people I know.

The hardest thing to judge is what level of risk is safe.

One doesn't accept bad challenges. Part of it is always the risk-taking without seeing that the risks are rational and the rewards are commensurate.. are more than commensurate.. with the risks.

Risk always looks different when you're beating the system than when you've been beaten.

First we must understand that there can be no life without risk - and when our center is strong, everything else is secondary, even the risks.

I go to the airport and I've had everything taken away from me because of the terrorists. People haven't realized yet, though, that we are at war.

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.

Bottoms line: terrorists are always at work.

If you have something at risk, you think differently.

We live in a world where there are many risks, and it's high time we start taking seriously which ones we should be worried about.

Everything in life has some risk, and what you have to actually learn to do is how to navigate it.

Terrorism gets people's attention.

There is no progress without risk, and in an environment where change is accelerating, risks are multiplying and businesses are increasingly complex, companies need strong, innovative partners to help manage their risk. Our brand clearly sets XL apart as the strong, innovative partner needed in today's market.

Terrorists are always a threat to someone. If we'll be scared of them, it means they have won.

In the real world in which we live, it's a dangerous world. And you know the old saying is that we have to be right 100 percent of the time; the terrorists only have to be right once.