Best Zygmunt Bauman Quotes
- This awful concept of underclass is really horrifying. You're not lower class, you are excluded - outside. Awful
- Why do I write books? Why do I think? Why should I be passionate? Because things could be different, they could be made better. Better
- Capitalism proceeds through creative destruction. What is created is capitalism in a 'new and improved' form - and what is destroyed is self-sustaining capacity, livelihood… All
- Civilisation, the orderly world in which we live, is frail. We are skating on thin ice. There is a fear of a collective disaster. Terrorism,… Civilisation
- I suspect that one of capitalism's crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well behind its own… Arbitrariness
- In a consumer society, people wallow in things, fascinating, enjoyable things. If you define your value by the things you acquire and surround yourself with,… Acquire
- In a liquid modern life there are no permanent bonds, and any that we take up for a time must be tied loosely so that… Any
- The rationality of the ruled is always the weapon of the rulers. Inspirational
- Questioning the ostensibly unquestionable premises of our way of life is arguably the most urgent of services we owe our fellow humans and ourselves. Arguably
- Where we hope to land (and where we do land, though only for a fleeting moment, enough for tired wings to catch the wind anew)… Anew
- Attempts to tame the wayward and domesticate the riotous, to make the unknowable predictable and enchain the free-roaming - all such things sound the death… All
- Occupying the bottom end of the inequality ladder, and becoming a 'collateral victim' of a human action or a natural disaster, interact the way the… Action