Freedom without security portends chaos, perpetual anxiety and fear. — 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 more security we have, the less freedom there is; more freedom means less security. You can hardly enough of both at… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
The problem of insufficient security was, until quite recently, a matter of a minority; now it is becoming very quickly a majority… — 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
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
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
Freedom without security portends chaos, perpetual anxiety and fear. Security without freedom means slavery. So, each on its own is awful; only… — 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
Alas, you don't need monsters for monstrous deeds to be accomplished. — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
