Most young people today prefer just to move in together and stay together as long, but no longer, as satisfaction lasts. — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Security is the slogan for people who feel unable to function by their own means. — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
The value of other people is that they have something unique to offer. — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, when I was young, people saw a wedding as an event that determined the rest of their life.… — 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
When people think, rightly or wrongly, that marriage is forever, they are stimulated to seek and find a resolution, a modus vivendi,… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
If only evil things are done by evil people... Life would be then safe, morally elevated, cozy - we know how to… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
We live in a globalising world. That means that all of us, consciously or not, depend on each other. Whatever we do… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
At the turn of the twenty-first century, the richest 5 percent of people receive one-third of total global income, as much as… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
The art of walking on quicksand is still beyond me. What I learned is only how difficult this art is to master… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Once upon a time there were the Pampas in Argentina, that people could treat as "empty lands" and where they could run… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
If you look back on the history of the 20th century, the 19th century or even to the ancien régime of the… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
In the last thirty years we have gained enormous amount of freedom (everywhere, except perhaps in places like Burma or North Korea),… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
We live in a world of communication - everyone gets information about everyone else. There is universal comparison and you don't just… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
I was watching the TV broadcasts interviewing people stranded at airports for days on end, losing their holidays, their important business meetings… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Why are people so concerned with relativism? If you look back in history, millions of people were killed because of someone's dogmatic… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
It is more or less clear that one idea which should emerge from the crash, whatever happens with the attempts to save… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Some dozens of years ago, there was a debate conducted between people insisting that "this loaf of bread must be redistributed," and… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
"Once there, always there", would give you less freedom than you recently enjoyed, but more security. Security not in the sense of… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
What is happening now is that the number of people who are not strong enough or do not feel strong enough to… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Freedom is the slogan which speaks to the ears of people who feel strong enough to manage on their own using their… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Now people are worried not about the prospects of buying new things, but about how to pay for the things they bought… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
In Montreal, where I taught in 1970, I met many people. The only ones who said to me they were Canadians, were… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
People do not choose a government that will bring the market within their control; instead, the market in every way conditions governments… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Middle class people, the bourgeoisie, they are also feeling frightened at the moment. Some fear losing their fortunes; some go bankrupt; some… — 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
