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

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.

High-consequence risks form one particular segment of the generalised 'climate of risk' characteristic of late modernity - one characterised by regular shifts in knowledge-claims as mediated by expert systems.

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.

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

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

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