The planet is full and we will be rubbing shoulders forever. There is nowhere else to go.
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.
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I worry about the Israeli moral standard, Israeli humanity.
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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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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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Security is the slogan for people who feel unable to function by their own means.
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With every death, a world is disappearing.
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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.
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You judge a society by the decency of living of the weakest
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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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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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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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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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Jews and Gypsies were well-nigh the only Diasporas in 19th century Europe. Now go to London, it is a collection of Diasporas.
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Every interpretation is but an introduction to another interpretation, and that is how Talmud pages are printed.
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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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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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