Our consumer-oriented economy wouldn't survive without economic growth. The whole mechanism depends on invention and insinuation of novelties, arousing new wants, seduction… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Our vulnerability [to ressentiment] is unavoidable (and probably incurable) in a kind of society in which relative equality of political and other… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Partnerships are increasingly seen through the prism of promises and expectations, and as a kind of product for consumers: satisfaction on the… — 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
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
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
We already have plenty of fundamentalism and fundamental sects like for instance Rabbi Schneerson and Chabad Lubavitch. They feel more secure because… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
There is less pressure on abandoning native communities: what for? There is nothing to be gained by it. On one hand, there… — 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
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