Giddens Quotes

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

Anthony Giddens

#2. 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.

Anthony Giddens

#3. 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.

Anthony Giddens

#4. The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#5. Adolescence is like a heavy rain. Even though you catch a cold from it, you still look forward to experiencing it once again.
(From 'In Those Bygone Years, The Girl We All Went After' the novel)

Giddens Ko

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

Anthony Giddens

#7. This was the ultimate form of ostentation among technology freaks - to have a system so complete and sophisticated that nothing showed; no machines, no wires, no controls.

Michael Swanwick

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

Anthony Giddens

#9. The proof that the state is a creation of nature and prior to the individual is that the individual, when isolated, is not self-sufficing; and therefore he is like a part in relation to the whole.

Aristotle.

#10. 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.

Anthony Giddens

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

Anthony Giddens

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

Anthony Giddens

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

Anthony Giddens

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

Anthony Giddens

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

Anthony Giddens

#16. If American women increase their voting turnout by ten percent, I think we would see an end to all of the budget cuts in programs benefiting women and children.

Coretta Scott King

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

Anthony Giddens

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

Anthony Giddens

#19. 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.

Anthony Giddens

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

Anthony Giddens

#21. One is good but ten is better. together is a powerful, beautiful, and peaceful.

B. Armynanta

#22. 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.

Anthony Giddens

#23. 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.

Anthony Giddens