Anthony Giddens Quotes

#1. Achieving control over change, in respect to lifestyle, demands an engagement with the outer social world rather than a retreat from it.

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#2. High-consequence risks form one particular segment of the generalised 'climate of risk' characteristic of late modernity - one characterised by regular shifts in knowledge-claims as mediated by expert systems.

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#3. To a greater or lesser degree, the project of the self becomes translated into one of the possession of desired goods and the pursuit of artificially framed styles of life. ( ... ) Not just lifestyles, but self-actualisation is packaged and distributed according to market criteria.

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#4. The new mixed economy looks ... for a synergy between public and private sectors.

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#5. Lifestyles are routined practices, the routines incorporated into habits of dress, eating, modes of acting and favoured milieux for encountering others; but the routines followed are reflexively open to change in the light of the mobile nature of self-identity.

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#6. The difficulties of living in a secular risk culture are compounded by the importance of lifestyle choices.

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#7. The thesis that risk assessment itself is inherently risky is nowhere better borne out than in the area of high-consequence risks.

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#8. Martin Luther King did not stir his audience in 1963 by declaiming 'I have a nightmare'

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#9. Apocalypse has become banal, a set of statistical risk parameters to everyone's existence.

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#10. The risk climate of modernity is thus unsettling for everyone: no one escapes.

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#11. 'Taking charge of one's life' involves risk, because it means confronting a diversity of open possibilities.

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#12. The body is thus not simply an 'entity', but is experienced as a practical mode of coping with external situations and events.

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#13. High-consequence risks have a distinctive quality. The more calamitous the hazards they involve, the less we have any real experience of what we risk: for if things 'go wrong', it is already too late.

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#14. The body is in some sense perennially at risk. The possibility of bodily injury is ever-present, even in the most familiar of surroundings.

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#15. The sustaining of life, in a bodily sense as well as in the sense of psychological health, is inherently subject to risk.

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#16. When the image of Nelson Mandela may be more familiar to us than the face of our next-door neighbour, something has changed in the nature of our everyday experience.

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#17. Risk concerns future happenings - as related to present practices - and the colonising of the future therefore opens up new settings of risk, some of which are institutionally organised.

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