'I am insecure' means: I can't cope on my own. The odds are overwhelming. I can't resist them on my own. I… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
For the first time in living memory, the whole class of graduates faces a future of crushing debt, and a high probability,… — 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
'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
