Europe itself is an embodiment of this diversity.

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.

All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many.

We are living in a world that is beyond controllability.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

I always know what to expect of the things of Mother Earth. Sometimes they are cruel, but it is hard, clean cruelty. They don’t torture you with their own weakness.

Archetypes are the mirror images of our never to be seen self

I was a teen star. That's disgusting enough.

I wasn't one to go out and buy a new car and stereo system and expensive clothes. My mom helped keep me grounded.

POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared. When he wriggles, he mistakes the agitation of his tail for the trembling of the edifice.

Important lessons: look carefully; record what you see. Find a way to make beauty necessary; find a way to make necessity beautiful.

True beauty comes from the inside out. It emerges from proper thinking, as well as proper nutrition and exercise.

In the human heart there is a ceaseless birth of passions, so that the destruction of one is almost always the establishment of another.

Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell.

Donald Trump is taking flak from the media, establishment republicans and all the democrats for merely stating the obvious and the truth: Vladimir Putin is much more of a leader than President Obama.