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• We have found ourselves in the period of "interregnum": the old works no more, the new is not yet born. But the awareness that without it being born we are all marked for demise, is already much alive, as is the awareness that the hard nut we must urgently crack is not the presence of "too many poor", but "too many rich".

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Nuts, Cracks, Demise

  Source: www.theoryculturesociety.org

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• 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

  Holocaust, Risk, Sin

  "Modern Lover". www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2005.

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• I worry about younger generations who were born to view their country trampling on humanity of everyone that comes in its way, as the 'normal state of affairs" - because they knew no other. We know how easy it is to shed, under such circumstances, the thin and frail veneer of civilization, not to mention the moral standards of which the Jews were presumed to be the world's teachers.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Country, Teacher, Civilization

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

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• People do not choose a government that will bring the market within their control; instead, the market in every way conditions governments to bring the people within its control.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Government, People, Way

  Source: www.theoryculturesociety.org

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• If only evil things are done by evil people... Life would be then safe, morally elevated, cozy - we know how to spot evil people and what to do with them to pay for their crimes.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Evil People, Pay, Would Be

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

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• The Bible provides unity without imposing uniformity, without prohibiting change; it is a standing invitation to thinking and to take responsibilities.

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  Responsibility, Thinking, Unity

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

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• 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.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Justice, Tools, Attention

  "Quality and inequality" by Zygmunt Bauman, www.theguardian.com. December 28, 2001.

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• Freedom without security portends chaos, perpetual anxiety and fear.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Anxiety, Chaos, Perpetual

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

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• Freedom is the slogan of the strong, who feel self confident, self sufficient to do it alone.

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  Strong, Self, Feels

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

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• 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.

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  Technology, Skills, Greed

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• 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

  Ipods, Car, Expectations

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• I think that the essential instruction of the Bible is very much topical. The sole problem is that with every change of historical setting, you need to readjust the interpretation of the message.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Thinking, Historical, Essentials

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

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• When opting out from partnership is so easy, every minor disagreement is perceived as a major catastrophe and irreparable disaster.

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  Partnership, Easy, Disaster

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

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• If Christ would have left Christian ethics codified on the table, then he wouldn't produce moral beings choosing between good and evil, but conformists fulfilling orders. I think the same can be said about the Bible.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Christian, Thinking, Order

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

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• I guess my claustrophobia is incurable - feeling, as I tend to, ill at ease in any closed room, and always tempted to find out what is on the other side of the door.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Doors, Feelings, Ease

  Source: www.theoryculturesociety.org

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

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  Moving, Long, People

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

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• Happiness needs one-upmanship.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Needs

  Zygmunt Bauman (2013). “The Art of Life”, p.1983, John Wiley & Sons

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• In "solid modernity" difference was tolerated as a temporary irritant only, expected to disappear tomorrow, when "those aliens" will become like us. "Living with strangers" was therefore not something to last and did not call for developing appropriate arts and skills. Now, however, it looks like that diasporic context of our living will not go away - it will be there forever, so learning how to live with strangers day in, day out without abandoning my own strangeness is high on the agenda.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Art, Skills, Differences

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

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• Capitalism proceeds through creative destruction. What is created is capitalism in a 'new and improved' form - and what is destroyed is self-sustaining capacity, livelihood and dignity of its innumerable and multiplied 'host organisms' into which all of us are drawn/seduced one way or another.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Self, Creative, Way

  "Capitalism has learned to create host organisms". www.theguardian.com. October 18, 2011.

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• What is assumed to be the materialisation of the inner truth of the self is in fact an idealisation of the material - objectified - traces of consumer choices.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Self, Choices, Facts

  Alessandro Balducci, Zygmunt Bauman, Gianluca Bocchi, Paolo Caputo, Mauro Ceruti (2012). “Architettura e Politica. Architecture and politics: italian/english text”, p.87, Gangemi Editore spa

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

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Monsters, Needs, Deeds

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

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• The proof of my Jewishness is that iniquities done by Israel pain me much more than iniquities perpetrated by any other country.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Country, Pain, Israel

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

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• The greatest economic minds of the 19th century, all of them without exception, considered economic growth as a temporary necessity. When all human needs are satisfied, then we will have a stable economy, reproducing every year the same things. We will stop straining ourselves worrying about development or growth. How naïve they were! One more reason to be reluctant about predicting the future. No doubt they were wiser than me, but even they made such a mistake!

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  Mistake, Years, Worry

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• Our consumer-oriented economy wouldn't survive without economic growth. The whole mechanism depends on invention and insinuation of novelties, arousing new wants, seduction and temptation. This is the problem we face - much more than recapitalizing the banks. The question is: Is that kind of economy sustainable?

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Temptation, Growth, Faces

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

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• For the first time in living memory, the whole class of graduates faces a future of crushing debt, and a high probability, almost the certainty, of ad hoc, temporary, insecure and part-time work and unpaid 'trainee' pseudo-jobs deceitfully rebranded as 'practices' - all considerably below the skills they have acquired and eons below the level of their expectations.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Crush, Jobs, Memories

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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