Zygmunt Bauman Quotes:
Why do I write books? Why do I think? Why should I be passionate? Because things could be different, they could be made better.
Zygmunt Bauman
This awful concept of underclass is really horrifying. You’re not lower class, you are excluded – outside.
ZYGMUNT BAUMAN
In a consumer society, people wallow in things, fascinating, enjoyable things. If you define your value by the things you acquire and surround yourself with, being excluded is humiliating.
ZYGMUNT BAUMAN
We live in a world of communication – everyone gets information about everyone else. There is universal comparison and you don’t just compare yourself with the people next door, you compare yourself to people all over the world and with what is being presented as the decent, proper and dignified life. It’s the crime of humiliation.
ZYGMUNT BAUMAN
The task for sociology is to come to the help of the individual. We have to be in service of freedom. It is something we have lost sight of.
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.
ZYGMUNT BAUMAN
Civilisation, the orderly world in which we live, is frail. We are skating on thin ice. There is a fear of a collective disaster. Terrorism, genocide, flu, tsunamis.
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.
ZYGMUNT BAUMAN
I was leftwing, I am leftwing, and I will die leftwing.
ZYGMUNT BAUMAN
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We belong to talking, not what talking is about… Stop talking – and you are out. Silence equals exclusion.
ZYGMUNT BAUMAN
Attempts to tame the wayward and domesticate the riotous, to make the unknowable predictable and enchain the free-roaming – all such things sound the death knell to love.
ZYGMUNT BAUMAN
As far as love is concerned, possession, power, fusion and disenchantment are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
ZYGMUNT BAUMAN