Our consumer-oriented economy wouldn't survive without economic growth. The whole mechanism depends on invention and insinuation of novelties, arousing new wants, seduction… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
In a consumer society, people wallow in things, fascinating, enjoyable things. If you define your value by the things you acquire and… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Security was the demand which set in motion labour movements in history; trade unions, friendly societies, consumer cooperatives were all about compensating… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
What is assumed to be the materialisation of the inner truth of the self is in fact an idealisation of the material… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
In a nutshell: if freedom visualised by the Enlightenment and demanded/promised by Marx was made to the measure of the ideal producer;… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Partnerships are increasingly seen through the prism of promises and expectations, and as a kind of product for consumers: satisfaction on the… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
As the run-by-capital society of producers turned since into the run-by-capital society of consumers, I would say that the main, indeed "meta",… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Ideally, nothing should be embraced by a consumer firmly, nothing should command a commitment till death do us part, no needs should… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
“People are cast in the underclass because they are seen as totally useless; as a nuisance pure and simple, something the rest… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
'I am insecure' means: I can't cope on my own. The odds are overwhelming. I can't resist them on my own. I need us… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share
It is easy now to break the vows. It is even easier to part your ways if vows haven't been taken. — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share
Once upon a time, when I was young, people saw a wedding as an event that determined the rest of their life. For a… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share
If you look back on the history of the 20th century, the 19th century or even to the ancien régime of the 18th, you… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share
After many years of thinking, reading and writing and looking, I came to believe that there are two basic, essential values which are indispensable… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share
State governments seek local remedies for the globally fabricated deprivations and miseries in vain - just as the individuals-by-the-decree-of-fate (read: by the impact of… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share
“Beneath the dream of fame, another dream, a dream of no longer dissolving and staying dissolved in the grey, faceless and insipid mass of… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share
Why are people so concerned with relativism? If you look back in history, millions of people were killed because of someone's dogmatic views, but… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share
I think that the essential instruction of the Bible is very much topical. The sole problem is that with every change of historical setting,… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share
For intellectual authority, the appropriate version of Descartes 's cogito would be today: I am talked about, therefore I am. — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share
The problem of insufficient security was, until quite recently, a matter of a minority; now it is becoming very quickly a majority matter. That… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share
