"We live in a globalising world. That means……" — Zygmunt Bauman
"We live in a globalising world. That means that all of us, consciously or not, depend on each other. Whatever we do or refrain from doing affects the lives of people who live in places we'll never visit."
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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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I think one of the biggest things that affects young women is when they hear their mothers using fat talk.
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A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
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With music, you often don't have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don't know why.
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We all seem to be about aggression and greed. It's a massive pressure that affects us all.
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What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is…
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Westerners often laud their children as 'talented' or 'gifted', while Asian parents highlight the importance of hard work. And in…
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If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's…
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Every time I see documentaries or infomercials about little kids with cancer, I just freak out. It affects me on…
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Cancer affects all of us, whether you're a daughter, mother, sister, friend, coworker, doctor, patient.
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