As long as being a stranger and surrounded by strangers was seen as a temporary irritant, a smallest departure from the binding rules of conduct by a member of a minority, was taken for a major crime justifying deportation.
ZYGMUNT BAUMANAs long as being a stranger and surrounded by strangers was seen as a temporary irritant, a smallest departure from the binding rules of conduct by a member of a minority, was taken for a major crime justifying deportation.
ZYGMUNT BAUMANWhy do I write books? Why do I think? Why should I be passionate? Because things could be different, they could be made better.
ZYGMUNT BAUMANIngeniously, capitalism discovered that the economy may be moved not by satisfying existing needs, but by creating new ones.
ZYGMUNT BAUMANWhat is happening now is that the number of people who are not strong enough or do not feel strong enough to decide to live without the security provided by the community or the state, is going up.
ZYGMUNT BAUMANEvery interpretation is but an introduction to another interpretation, and that is how Talmud pages are printed.
ZYGMUNT BAUMANJews and Gypsies were well-nigh the only Diasporas in 19th century Europe. Now go to London, it is a collection of Diasporas.
ZYGMUNT BAUMANMost young people today prefer just to move in together and stay together as long, but no longer, as satisfaction lasts.
ZYGMUNT BAUMANThe planet is full and we will be rubbing shoulders forever. There is nowhere else to go.
ZYGMUNT BAUMANYou judge a society by the decency of living of the weakest
ZYGMUNT BAUMANAll the skills which I have acquired during my sociological life allow me to diagnose and explain what is going on, but not to predict what will happen.
ZYGMUNT BAUMANI worry about the Israeli moral standard, Israeli humanity.
ZYGMUNT BAUMANBeing condemned by fate to perpetual togetherness, we better make that shared fate into our shared, consciously and gladly embraced, destiny.
ZYGMUNT BAUMANThe 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 BAUMANWith every death, a world is disappearing.
ZYGMUNT BAUMANWe already have – thanks to technology, development, skills, the efficiency of our work – enough resources to satisfy all human needs. But we don’t have enough resources, and we are unlikely ever to have, to satisfy human greed.
ZYGMUNT BAUMANSecurity is the slogan for people who feel unable to function by their own means.
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