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All 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 Bauman

I worry about the Israeli moral standard, Israeli humanity.
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Humanity Moral Worry
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.
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Long Minorities Taken
We are already and will remain all in the same boat.
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Already Boat Happen Reamain
Being condemned by fate to perpetual togetherness, we better make that shared fate into our shared, consciously and gladly embraced, destiny.
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Destiny Fate Togetherness
Security is the slogan for people who feel unable to function by their own means.
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Function Mean People
Ingeniously, capitalism discovered that the economy may be moved not by satisfying existing needs, but by creating new ones.
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Creating May Need
What 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.
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Numbers People Strong
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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Holocaust Risk Sin
Why do I write books? Why do I think? Why should I be passionate? Because things could be different, they could be made better.
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Book Thinking Writing
With every death, a world is disappearing.
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Death Disappear World
The planet is full and we will be rubbing shoulders forever. There is nowhere else to go.
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Forever Planet Shoulder
You judge a society by the decency of living of the weakest
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Decency Judging Weakest
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.
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Helping Sight Task
We 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.
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Greed Skill Technology
Every interpretation is but an introduction to another interpretation, and that is how Talmud pages are printed.
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Interpretation Introduction Page
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