"In our world of rampant individualisation, relationships are……" — Zygmunt Bauman
"In our world of rampant individualisation, relationships are mixed blessings. They vacillate between a sweet dream and a nightmare, and there is no telling when one turns into the other."
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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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Unlike 'real relationships', 'virtual relationships' are easy to enter and to exit. They look smart and clean, feel easy to…
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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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We already have - thanks to technology, development, skills, the efficiency of our work - enough resources to satisfy all…
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All blessings come to us through our Lord. He will teach us, for in beholding His life we find that…
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Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.
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A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and…
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If you expect the blessings of God, be kind to His people.
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There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the…
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I've always competed in those shows. Like, I won 'Fear Factor', I did 'I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of…
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On the recollection of so many and great favours and blessings, I now, with a high sense of gratitude, presume…
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The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to…
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Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience…
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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It's a real blessing for me to tell you, sir, that calvary has arrived - Fox is here!
— Glenn Beck
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A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings…
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