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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 Bauman

You judge a society by the decency of living of the weakest
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Decency Judging Weakest
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
Once upon a time, when I was young, people saw a wedding as an event that determined the rest of their life. For a rising number of people today, it is quite normal to “try and err”, marry, divorce, marry again.
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Divorce Number People
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
Most young people today prefer just to move in together and stay together as long, but no longer, as satisfaction lasts.
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Long Moving 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
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
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
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
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
Every interpretation is but an introduction to another interpretation, and that is how Talmud pages are printed.
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Interpretation Introduction Page
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
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
We are already and will remain all in the same boat.
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Already Boat Happen Reamain
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.
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Happens Skill Sociological

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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