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> [Today's youth have been cast in a condition of liminal drift, with no way of knowing whether it is transitory or permanent.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zygmunt-bauman/today-s-youth-have-been-cast-in-a-condition-of-liminal-drift-with-no/)

[Zygmunt Bauman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zygmunt-bauman/)

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## Other authors on Drift

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## More by Zygmunt Bauman

> [Alas, you don't need monsters for monstrous deeds to be accomplished.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zygmunt-bauman/alas-you-don-t-need-monsters-for-monstrous-deeds-to-be-accomplished/)

[Zygmunt Bauman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zygmunt-bauman/)

> ['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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zygmunt-bauman/i-am-insecure-means-i-can-t-cope-on-my-own-the-odds-are-overwhelming/)

[Zygmunt Bauman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zygmunt-bauman/)

> [For one to be free there must be at least two.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zygmunt-bauman/for-one-to-be-free-there-must-be-at-least-two/)

[Zygmunt Bauman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zygmunt-bauman/)

> [It is easy now to break the vows. It is even easier to part your ways if vows haven't been taken.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zygmunt-bauman/it-is-easy-now-to-break-the-vows-it-is-even-easier-to-part-your-ways/)

[Zygmunt Bauman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zygmunt-bauman/)

> [Once upon a time, when I was young, people saw a wedding as an event that determined the rest of their life. For a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zygmunt-bauman/once-upon-a-time-when-i-was-young-people-saw-a-wedding-as-an-event/)

[Zygmunt Bauman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zygmunt-bauman/)

> [The inequality between the world's individuals is staggering.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zygmunt-bauman/the-inequality-between-the-world-s-individuals-is-staggering/)

[Zygmunt Bauman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zygmunt-bauman/)

> [If you look back on the history of the 20th century, the 19th century or even to the ancien régime of the 18th, you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zygmunt-bauman/if-you-look-back-on-the-history-of-the-20th-century-the-19th-century/)

[Zygmunt Bauman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zygmunt-bauman/)

> [Madness is no madness when shared.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zygmunt-bauman/madness-is-no-madness-when-shared/)

[Zygmunt Bauman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zygmunt-bauman/)

> [After many years of thinking, reading and writing and looking, I came to believe that there are two basic, essential values which are indispensable…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zygmunt-bauman/after-many-years-of-thinking-reading-and-writing-and-looking-i-came/)

[Zygmunt Bauman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zygmunt-bauman/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zygmunt-bauman/state-governments-seek-local-remedies-for-the-globally-fabricated/)

[Zygmunt Bauman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zygmunt-bauman/)

> [“Beneath the dream of fame, another dream, a dream of no longer dissolving and staying dissolved in the grey, faceless and insipid mass of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zygmunt-bauman/beneath-the-dream-of-fame-another-dream-a-dream-of-no-longer/)

[Zygmunt Bauman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zygmunt-bauman/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zygmunt-bauman/why-are-people-so-concerned-with-relativism-if-you-look-back-in/)

[Zygmunt Bauman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zygmunt-bauman/)

> [I think that the essential instruction of the Bible is very much topical. The sole problem is that with every change of historical setting,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zygmunt-bauman/i-think-that-the-essential-instruction-of-the-bible-is-very-much/)

[Zygmunt Bauman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zygmunt-bauman/)

> [For intellectual authority, the appropriate version of Descartes 's cogito would be today: I am talked about, therefore I am.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zygmunt-bauman/for-intellectual-authority-the-appropriate-version-of-descartes-s/)

[Zygmunt Bauman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zygmunt-bauman/)

> [The problem of insufficient security was, until quite recently, a matter of a minority; now it is becoming very quickly a majority matter. That…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zygmunt-bauman/the-problem-of-insufficient-security-was-until-quite-recently-a/)

[Zygmunt Bauman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zygmunt-bauman/)

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