Quotes by Zygmunt Bauman

Zygmunt Bauman

‘I am insecure’ means: I can’t cope on my own. The odds are overwhelming. I can’t resist them on my own. I need us to join forces, stand shoulder to shoulder, march hand in hand.

Insecure

Mean

Odds

“Community” came to be seen as a chat-group: you switch on as long as your pleasure lasts, then push another button and switch off. Very easy to go in and out, join and leave.

Buttons

Community

Long

“Once there, always there”, would give you less freedom than you recently enjoyed, but more security. Security not in the sense of safety from terrorists, burglars, or pickpockets… but security in the sense of knowing where you are, who you are, on what kind of future you can count, what will happen, whether you will preserve your position in society or whether you will be degraded and humiliated – this sort of security. This sort of security for many, many people – a rising number of people – looks at the moment more attractive than more freedom.

Knowing

Numbers

People

A reliable assurance of the right and ability to dismantle the constructed structure must be offered, before the job of construction starts in earnest.

Construction

Jobs

Structure

A whole world is taken to the grave with the dead person; each one of us is unique and unrepeatable.

Taken

Unique

World

After many years of thinking, reading and writing and looking, I came to believe that there are two basic, essential values which are indispensable for humane, decent, dignified life: one is freedom, and the other is security.

Believe

Reading

Writing

Alas, you don’t need monsters for monstrous deeds to be accomplished.

Deeds

Monsters

Needs

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.

Happens

Skills

Sociological

An ideal and flawless freedom, “complete freedom”, enabling without disabling, is I believe an oxymoron in metaphysics as much as it is an unreachable goal in social life.

Believe

Enabling

Goal

As far as love is concerned, possession, power, fusion and disenchantment are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse

Fusion

Love Is

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Actors

Advancement

Anxiety

Art

Ashes

Asymmetry

Attention

Average

Awful

Beautiful

Believe

Big Families

Bigs

Biodegradable

Blessing

Boat

Book

Boredom

Brazil

Bridges

Buttons

Cake

Car

Caring

Chaos

Character

Children

Choices

Christian

Circumstances

Civilization

Class

Commitment

Communication

Community

Consistency

Construction

Consumers

Country

Couple

Cracks

Creating

Creative

Credit

Crowds

Crush

Culture

Cutting

Decency

Deeds

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Quotes by Zygmunt Bauman

Zygmunt Bauman

‘I am insecure’ means: I can’t cope on my own. The odds are overwhelming. I can’t resist them on my own. I need us to join forces, stand shoulder to shoulder, march hand in hand.

“Community” came to be seen as a chat-group: you switch on as long as your pleasure lasts, then push another button and switch off. Very easy to go in and out, join and leave.

A reliable assurance of the right and ability to dismantle the constructed structure must be offered, before the job of construction starts in earnest.

A whole world is taken to the grave with the dead person; each one of us is unique and unrepeatable.

After many years of thinking, reading and writing and looking, I came to believe that there are two basic, essential values which are indispensable for humane, decent, dignified life: one is freedom, and the other is security.

Alas, you don’t need monsters for monstrous deeds to be accomplished.

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.

An ideal and flawless freedom, “complete freedom”, enabling without disabling, is I believe an oxymoron in metaphysics as much as it is an unreachable goal in social life.

As far as love is concerned, possession, power, fusion and disenchantment are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

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