"Human attention tends to be focused on the……" — Zygmunt Bauman
"Human attention tends to be focused on the satisfactions relationships are hoped to bring, precisely because somehow they have not been truly satisfactory. And if they do satisfy, the price of this satisfaction has often been found to be unacceptable."
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Zygmunt Bauman
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37 Quotes by Zygmunt Bauman
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The consumerist culture insists that swearing eternal loyalty to anything and anybody is imprudent, since in this world new glittering…
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There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption…
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Ideally, nothing should be embraced by a consumer firmly, nothing should command a commitment till death do us part, no…
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What is assumed to be the materialisation of the inner truth of the self is in fact an idealisation of…
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Partnerships are increasingly seen through the prism of promises and expectations, and as a kind of product for consumers: satisfaction…
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What has been cut apart cannot be glued back together. Abandon all hope of totality, future as well as past,…
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Attempts to tame the wayward and domesticate the riotous, to make the unknowable predictable and enchain the free-roaming - all…
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The task for sociology is to come to the help of the individual. We have to be in service of…
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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…
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