Civilisation, the orderly world in which we live, is frail. We are skating on thin ice. There is a fear of a… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
The consumerist culture insists that swearing eternal loyalty to anything and anybody is imprudent, since in this world new glittering opportunities crop… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
A whole world is taken to the grave with the dead person; each one of us is unique and unrepeatable. — 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
In our world of rampant individualisation, relationships are mixed blessings. They vacillate between a sweet dream and a nightmare, and there is… — 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
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
We are living at the moment in revolutionary times. Argentineans probably are more aware of it than anybody else, because they tasted… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
While a few poor countries are catching up with the rich world, the differences between the richest and poorest individuals around the… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
In a world of global dependencies with no corresponding global polity and few tools of global justice, the rich of the world… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
I worry about younger generations who were born to view their country trampling on humanity of everyone that comes in its way,… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
There were no "unemployed" in the impoverished Polish countryside before the Second World War. Not a single unemployed. Every child that was… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Once we realize that the strangers are here forever and won't go away, then, like husband and wife in the old-style marriage,… — 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
