"The carrying power of a bridge is not……" — Zygmunt Bauman
"The carrying power of a bridge is not the average strength of the pillars, but the strength of the weakest pillar. I have always believed that you do not measure the health of a society by GNP but by the condition of its worst off."
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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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In our world of rampant individualisation, relationships are mixed blessings. They vacillate between a sweet dream and a nightmare, and…
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