It is so true that in liquid modernity freedom was, so to speak, let off the leash, and for a quite a… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
“What prompts so many commentators to speak of the 'end of history', of post-modernity, 'second modernity' and 'surmodernity', or otherwise to articulate… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
In "solid modernity" difference was tolerated as a temporary irritant only, expected to disappear tomorrow, when "those aliens" will become like us.… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Throughout early modernity there were very strong pressures on Jews to assimilate. Assimilating meant cutting your ties with the community of origin. — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
What has been cut apart cannot be glued back together. Abandon all hope of totality, future as well as past, you who… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
If there is something to permit the distinction between "solid" and "liquid" phases of modernity (that is, arranging them in an order… — 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
