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Category Archive: Zygmunt Bauman

Zygmunt Bauman Quote: “Relationships, like cars, should undergo regular…”

Relationships, like cars, should undergo regular services to make sure they are still roadworthy.

October 11, 2021 1925, November 19, Polish, Quotes by Sociologists, Zygmunt Bauman

Zygmunt Bauman Quote: “We belong to talking, not what…”

We belong to talking, not what talking is about… Stop talking – and you are out. Silence equals exclusion.

June 22, 2021 1925, November 19, Polish, Quotes by Sociologists, Zygmunt Bauman

Zygmunt Bauman Quote: “The task for sociology is to…”

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.

June 6, 2021 1925, November 19, Polish, Quotes by Sociologists, Zygmunt Bauman

Zygmunt Bauman Quote: “Like the phoenix, socialism is reborn…”

Like the phoenix, socialism is reborn from every pile of ashes left day in, day out, by burnt-out human dreams and charred hopes.

February 17, 2021 1925, November 19, Polish, Quotes by Sociologists, Zygmunt Bauman

Zygmunt Bauman Quote: “Attempts to tame the wayward and…”

Attempts to tame the wayward and domesticate the riotous, to make the unknowable predictable and enchain the free-roaming – all such things sound the death knell to love.

February 15, 2021 1925, November 19, Polish, Quotes by Sociologists, Zygmunt Bauman

Zygmunt Bauman Quote: “Civilisation, the orderly world in which…”

Civilisation, the orderly world in which we live, is frail. We are skating on thin ice. There is a fear of a collective disaster. Terrorism, genocide, flu, tsunamis.

October 31, 2020 1925, November 19, Polish, Quotes by Sociologists, Zygmunt Bauman

Zygmunt Bauman Quote: “Why do I write books? Why…”

Why do I write books? Why do I think? Why should I be passionate? Because things could be different, they could be made better.

October 27, 2020 1925, November 19, Polish, Quotes by Sociologists, Zygmunt Bauman

Zygmunt Bauman Quote: “In a world of global dependencies…”

In a world of global dependencies with no corresponding global polity and few tools of global justice, the rich of the world are free to pursue their own interests while paying no attention to the rest.

September 11, 2020 1925, November 19, Polish, Quotes by Sociologists, Zygmunt Bauman

Zygmunt Bauman Quote: “The carrying power of a bridge…”

The carrying power of a bridge is not the average strength of the pillars, but the strength of the weakest pillar. I have always believed that you do not measure the health of a society by GNP but by the condition of its worst off.

August 30, 2020 1925, November 19, Polish, Quotes by Sociologists, Zygmunt Bauman

Zygmunt Bauman Quote: “Happiness needs one-upmanship….”

Happiness needs one-upmanship.

August 1, 2020 1925, November 19, Polish, Quotes by Sociologists, Zygmunt Bauman

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