"The risk of the Holocaust is not that……" — Zygmunt Bauman
"The risk of the Holocaust is not that it will be forgotten, but that it will be embalmed and surrounded by monuments and used to absolve all future sins."
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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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And in this battle, Brother William (Guillaume), Master of the Templars, lost an eye; and he had lost the other…
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Righteous ends, thus approved, absolve of guilt the most violent means.
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Genetically influenced behavior is not necessarily good and not necessarily unchangeable. Explanations of bad behavior that appeal to genes do…
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The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its…
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Typography has one plain duty before it and that is to convey information in writing. No argument or consideration can…
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Every reading is partial, but that does not absolve us from the quest for meaning, which defines us as a…
— Camille Paglia
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We must live for the few who know and appreciate us, who judge and absolve us, and for whom we…
— Sarah Bernhardt
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In days gone by, we were afraid of dying in dishonor or a state of sin. Nowadays, we are afraid…
— Jean Baudrillard
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