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
There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
I worry about younger generations who were born to view their country trampling on humanity of everyone that comes in its way,… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Capitalism proceeds through creative destruction. What is created is capitalism in a 'new and improved' form - and what is destroyed is… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
I suspect that one of capitalism's crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
People do not choose a government that will bring the market within their control; instead, the market in every way conditions governments… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Once we realize that the strangers are here forever and won't go away, then, like husband and wife in the old-style marriage,… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Questioning the ostensibly unquestionable premises of our way of life is arguably the most urgent of services we owe our fellow humans… — 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
