Zygmunt Bauman Quotes

Relationships, like cars, should undergo regular services to make sure they are still roadworthy.

Occupying the bottom end of the inequality ladder, and becoming a 'collateral victim' of a human act...

If political rights are necessary to set social rights in place, social rights are indispensable to ...

Postmodernity means the exhilarating freedom to pursue anything, yet mind-boggling uncertainty as to...

In a liquid modern life there are no permanent bonds, and any that we take up for a time must be tie...

Like the phoenix, socialism is reborn from every pile of ashes left day in, day out, by burnt-out hu...

Happiness needs one-upmanship.

We live in a world of communication - everyone gets information about everyone else. There is univer...

The carrying power of a bridge is not the average strength of the pillars, but the strength of the w...

Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which...

Partnerships are increasingly seen through the prism of promises and expectations, and as a kind of ...

The task for sociology is to come to the help of the individual. We have to be in service of freedom...

The risk of the Holocaust is not that it will be forgotten, but that it will be embalmed and surroun...

In a consumer society, people wallow in things, fascinating, enjoyable things. If you define your va...

We already have - thanks to technology, development, skills, the efficiency of our work - enough res...

Debate is never finished; it can't be, lest democracy be no longer democratic and society be strippe...

Justice' primes the human habitat for peaceful and friendly togetherness. It sets the table - the ro...

For one to be free there must be at least two.

To understand how that astounding moral blindness was possible, it is helpful to think of the worker...