Relationships, like cars, should undergo regular services to make sure they are still roadworthy. Zygmunt Bauman Read Quote
Why do I write books? Why do I think? Why should I be passionate? Because things could be different, they could be made better. Zygmunt Bauman Read Quote
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. Zygmunt Bauman Read Quote
I suspect that one of capitalism’s crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well behind its own inventiveness, the arbitrariness of its undertaking and the ruthlessness of the way in which it proceeds. Zygmunt Bauman Read Quote
We belong to talking, not what talking is about… Stop talking – and you are out. Silence equals exclusion. Zygmunt Bauman Read Quote
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. Zygmunt Bauman Read Quote
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 Read Quote
There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production. Zygmunt Bauman Read Quote