Ulrich Beck

“Climate change is the side effect of a side effect of a side effect.”

“Individualization is a compulsion, not a choice.”

“Globalization is not a one-way street, but a two-way street.”

“Cosmopolitanism is the recognition of the otherness of others.”

“Love is the most radical form of cosmopolitanism.”

“The driving force in the class society is 'I am hungry!', in the risk society it is 'I am afraid!'”

“In the risk society, the unknown and unintended consequences come to be a dominant force in history and society.”

“Side-effects are the motor of social change.”

“Reflexive modernization means the self-confrontation of the effects of modernization.”

“Risk may be defined as a systematic way of dealing with hazards and insecurities induced and introduced by modernization itself.”

“Modernization itself has become a source of risk. The more we try to control our world, the more we create new and unforeseen dangers.”

“The logic of risk production and distribution is not the same as the logic of wealth production and distribution.”

“The nation-state is becoming a zombie category.”

“Poverty is hierarchic, smog is democratic.”

“We are living in a world that is beyond controllability.”