Once upon a time, when I was young, people saw a wedding as an event that determined the rest of their life.… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
For intellectual authority, the appropriate version of Descartes 's cogito would be today: I am talked about, therefore I am. — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Jews are no longer pressed and obliged to fight, hide or deny their Jewishness. What for? No one actually requires today to… — 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
Most young people today prefer just to move in together and stay together as long, but no longer, as satisfaction lasts. — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Today's youth have been cast in a condition of liminal drift, with no way of knowing whether it is transitory or permanent. — 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
