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. - Zygmunt Bauman 1 Share Now -
Partnerships are increasingly seen through the prism of promises and expectations, and as a kind of product for consumers: satisfaction on the spot, and if not fully satisfied, return the product to the shop or replace it with a new and improved one! You don't, after all, stick to your car, or computer, or iPod, when better ones appear. - Zygmunt Bauman 2 Share Now -
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. - Zygmunt Bauman 3 Share Now -
In a consumer society, people wallow in things, fascinating, enjoyable things. If you define your value by the things you acquire and surround yourself with, being excluded is humiliating. - Zygmunt Bauman 4 Share Now -
Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done. - Zygmunt Bauman 5 Share Now -
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. - Zygmunt Bauman 7 Share Now -
In a liquid modern life there are no permanent bonds, and any that we take up for a time must be tied loosely so that they can be untied again, as quickly and as effortlessly as possible, when circumstances change - as they surely will in our liquid modern society, over and over again. - Zygmunt Bauman 8 Share Now -
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. - Zygmunt Bauman 9 Share Now -
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. - Zygmunt Bauman 10 Share Now -
