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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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Civilisation, the orderly world in which we live, is frail. We are skating on thin ice. There is a fear of a…
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In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
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I think that in the realm of commercial, popcorn cinema, the amount of message or smuggling of ideas you can get in…
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the constant shower of the sun's mane erases the footprints on thin ice do not fear deception for the world lies atop…
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If you're skating on thin ice, you might as well dance.
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Living in the modern age, death for virtue is the wage. So it seems in darker hours. Evil wins, kindness cowers. Ruled…
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