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"Global conditions are far too complex to be able to imagine that they could ever be really controlled by one power."
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"I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too."
"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."
"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."
"When they come to Europe, they are confronted by still closed borders. Thus, the concept of open borders is a very selective concept, one that is not taken seriously at all in the experience of non-Europeans."
"We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more and more life situations."
"Initially, the horrific images of September 11th triggered an enormous wave of solidarity."
"Nonetheless, we continue to be obsessed with finding or inventing a European nation which, as in the nation state, guarantees homogeneity and thus an appropriate form of democracy and centralized government."
"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."
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