Quote of the Day
Authors Categories Blog Quote Maker Videos
 

Anthony Giddens Quotes: The risk climate of modernity is thus unsettling for everyone: no one escapes.
         

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


Anthony Giddens
Check all other quotes by Anthony Giddens

Want to display this quote image on your website or blog? Simply copy and paste the below code on your website/blog.

Embed:

Format of this image is jpg. The width and height of image are 1200 and 630, repectively. This image is available for free to download.





Citation

Use the citation below to add this quote to your bibliography:


Styles:

×

MLA Style Citation


"Anthony Giddens Quotes." Quoteslyfe.com, 2024. Sun. 28 Apr. 2024. <https://www.quoteslyfe.com/quote/The-risk-climate-of-modernity-is-thus-380247>.





Check out


Other quotes of Anthony Giddens


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

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



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

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



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

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



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

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



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

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



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

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



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

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



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.

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.



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

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



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

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





Other quotes you may like


There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room.

There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room.



Life is too short to have debts and doubts, Pay the bills, no regrets, be up and about.

Life is too short to have debts and doubts, Pay the bills, no regrets, be up and about.



America's founding Ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more - and nothing less.

America's founding Ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more - and nothing less.



The challenge there is that ISIL doesn't have an air force, so the damage done there is not against ISIL, it's against the Syrian regime.

The challenge there is that ISIL doesn't have an air force, so the damage done there is not against ISIL, it's against the Syrian regime.



If a farmer and his family can get up at 5:30 every morning to milk cows, surly we can get up at that time to practice basketball.

If a farmer and his family can get up at 5:30 every morning to milk cows, surly we can get up at that time to practice basketball.



Let your first 'good morning' be to your Heavenly Father.

Let your first 'good morning' be to your Heavenly Father.



Vanity is easily duped. Ambition, not.

Vanity is easily duped. Ambition, not.



I could never be like Hitchcock and do only one kind of movie. Anything that's good is worthwhile.

I could never be like Hitchcock and do only one kind of movie. Anything that's good is worthwhile.



Independent thinking is not just helpful in becoming a successful investor, it’s required.

Independent thinking is not just helpful in becoming a successful investor, it’s required.



For the general practitioner a well-used library is one of the few correctives of the premature senility which is so apt to take him.

For the general practitioner a well-used library is one of the few correctives of the premature senility which is so apt to take him.




Quote Description


This page presents the quote "The risk climate of modernity is thus unsettling for everyone: no one escapes.". Author of this quote is Anthony Giddens. This quote is about climate, modernity, risk,.