Social Quotes by Zygmunt Bauman

6 Social quotes by Zygmunt Bauman

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Our vulnerability [to ressentiment] is unavoidable (and probably incurable) in a kind of society in which relative equality of political and other…

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“If political rights are necessary to set social rights in place, social rights are indispensable to make political rights 'real' and keep…

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Occupying the bottom end of the inequality ladder, and becoming a 'collateral victim' of a human action or a natural disaster, interact…

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For one to be free there must be at least two. Freedom signifies a social relation, an asymmetry of social conditions: essentially…

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An ideal and flawless freedom, "complete freedom", enabling without disabling, is I believe an oxymoron in metaphysics as much as it is…

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The secret of every durable ... social system is the recasting of 'functional prerequisites' into behavioral motives for actors.

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Alas, you don't need monsters for monstrous deeds to be accomplished.

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'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…

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For one to be free there must be at least two.

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It is easy now to break the vows. It is even easier to part your ways if vows haven't been taken.

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Once upon a time, when I was young, people saw a wedding as an event that determined the rest of their life. For a…

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The inequality between the world's individuals is staggering.

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If you look back on the history of the 20th century, the 19th century or even to the ancien régime of the 18th, you will see that first people rebelled against the order of the things because of lack of liberty, and demanded more freedom. And when they got more freedom, they got frightened, and they desired more security for…

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Madness is no madness when shared.

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After many years of thinking, reading and writing and looking, I came to believe that there are two basic, essential values which are indispensable…

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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…

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“Beneath the dream of fame, another dream, a dream of no longer dissolving and staying dissolved in the grey, faceless and insipid mass of commodities, a dream of turning into a notable, noticed and coveted commodity, a talked about commodity, a commodity standing out from the mass of commodities, a commodity impossible to overlook, to deride, to be dismissed. In…

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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…

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