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Anthony Giddens Quotes

The difficulties of living in a secular risk culture are compounded by the importance of lifestyle choices Picture Quote #1

Martin Luther King did not stir his audience in 1963 by declaiming ‘I have a nightmare’ Picture Quote #1

Regimes are modes of self-discipline, but are not solely constituted by the orderings of convention in day-to-day life; they are personal habits, organised in some part according to social conventions, but also formed by personal inclinations and dispositions. Regimes are of central importance to self-identity precisely because they connect habits with aspects of the visible appearance of the body Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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

The sustaining of life, in a bodily sense as well as in the sense of psychological health, is inherently subject to risk Picture Quote #1

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

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The difficulties of living in a secular risk culture are compounded by the importance of lifestyle choices (Anthony Giddens Quotes) Martin Luther King did not stir his audience in 1963 by declaiming ‘I have a nightmare’ (Anthony Giddens Quotes) Regimes are modes of self-discipline, but are not solely constituted by the orderings of convention in day-to-day life; they are personal habits, organised in some part according to social conventions, but also formed by personal inclinations and dispositions. Regimes are of central importance to self-identity precisely because they connect habits with aspects of the visible appearance of the body (Anthony Giddens Quotes) 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 Quotes) The risk climate of modernity is thus unsettling for everyone: no one escapes (Anthony Giddens Quotes) The sustaining of life, in a bodily sense as well as in the sense of psychological health, is inherently subject to risk (Anthony Giddens Quotes) Achieving control over change, in respect to lifestyle, demands an engagement with the outer social world rather than a retreat from it (Anthony Giddens Quotes)