Zygmunt Bauman Quotes About Today

Quotes about: Today

• Today's youth have been cast in a condition of liminal drift, with no way of knowing whether it is transitory or permanent.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Knowing, Today's Youth, Way

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• There is less pressure on abandoning native communities: what for? There is nothing to be gained by it. On one hand, there are plenty tempting opportunities of experimenting with identities - being one kind of person today and a different the next day. On the other hand, there is little pressure to include the ethnic identity or religious identity into this mechanism, because now everybody is in a kind of Diaspora today.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Religious, Opportunity, Hands

  Interview with Marcelo Dimentstein, Alberto Senderey, Andy Spokoiny and Shira Shnitzer, leatid.org. February 2009.

• Jews are no longer pressed and obliged to fight, hide or deny their Jewishness. What for? No one actually requires today to abandon the idiosyncrasy of some other culture or ethnic tradition. The great achievement of this last period is that we have been slowly, sometimes reluctantly, yet steadily, learning the art of living with differences.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Art, Fighting, Other Cultures

• 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.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Divorce, Numbers, People

  Interview with Marcelo Dimentstein, Alberto Senderey, Andy Spokoiny and Shira Shnitzer, leatid.org. February 2009.

• Most young people today prefer just to move in together and stay together as long, but no longer, as satisfaction lasts.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Moving, Long, People

  Interview with Marcelo Dimentstein, Alberto Senderey, Andy Spokoiny and Shira Shnitzer, leatid.org. February 2009.

• For intellectual authority, the appropriate version of Descartes 's cogito would be today: I am talked about, therefore I am.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Intellectual, Would Be, Today

  Zygmunt Bauman (2013). “The Individualized Society”, p.153, John Wiley & Sons

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