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Zygmunt Bauman has 37 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The consumerist culture insists that swearing eternal loyalty to anything and anybody is imprudent, since in this world new glittering opportunities crop…
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There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases…
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Unlike 'real relationships', 'virtual relationships' are easy to enter and to exit. They look smart and clean, feel easy to use, when…
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Ideally, nothing should be embraced by a consumer firmly, nothing should command a commitment till death do us part, no needs should…
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What is assumed to be the materialisation of the inner truth of the self is in fact an idealisation of the material…
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Partnerships are increasingly seen through the prism of promises and expectations, and as a kind of product for consumers: satisfaction on the…
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What has been cut apart cannot be glued back together. Abandon all hope of totality, future as well as past, you who…
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Attempts to tame the wayward and domesticate the riotous, to make the unknowable predictable and enchain the free-roaming - all such things…
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The task for sociology is to come to the help of the individual. We have to be in service of freedom. It…
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Madness is no madness when shared.
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Happiness needs one-upmanship.
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In our world of rampant individualisation, relationships are mixed blessings. They vacillate between a sweet dream and a nightmare, and there is…
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The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because…
— Aristotle
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To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.
— Marcus Aurelius
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I actually regard Facebook as a huge bore, but I cannot refrain from participating in it. I guess I crave the feeling…
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An opera singer is like an athlete before a match. An athlete cannot overdo anything. In order to perform at the highest…
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Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying…
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Buddhism regards all living creatures as being endowed with the Buddha nature and the potential to become Buddhas. That's why Buddhism teaches…
— Hsuan Hua
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A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
— Seneca the Younger
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When the sparrow sings its final refrain, the hush is felt nowhere more deeply than in the heart of man.
— Don Williams
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If anyone does not refrain from the love of money, he will be defiled by idolatry and so be judged as if…
— Polycarp
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The true meaning of the precepts is not just that one should refrain from drinking alcohol, but also from getting drunk on…
— Bassui Tokusho
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Any time one person makes an effort to contact a deeper part of him or herself, balance his or her emotions, and…
— Howard Martin
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It would have been more to the point, more honest and more Christian, in past decades not to support those who intentionally…
— Adolf Hitler
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