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"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."
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"If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
"Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals."
"He was the darkest of voices inside her head, the Night - kind King, and when he turned his gift of persuasion onto her, she wanted to take her soul out of her body and hand it to him."
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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."
"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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