Zygmunt Bauman Quotes - Page 5

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• A reliable assurance of the right and ability to dismantle the constructed structure must be offered, before the job of construction starts in earnest.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Jobs, Construction, Structure

  Source: www.theoryculturesociety.org

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• The visual does seem to me the most thoroughly grasped and recorded among my impressions; sight seems to be my principal sense organ, and "seeing" supplies the key metaphors for reporting the perception.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Keys, Sight, Perception

  Source: www.theoryculturesociety.org

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• We already have plenty of fundamentalism and fundamental sects like for instance Rabbi Schneerson and Chabad Lubavitch. They feel more secure because they are in the warm, caring/sharing community. This is the difference between community (Gemeinschaft) and what Ferdinand Tönnies called Gesellschaft: a kind of setting in which you have no rights to do anything unless you pay for it, and no right to get anything unless you prove that you are 'credit worthy'. In a Gemeinschaft, however, you have a place at the table guaranteed whatever happens.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Caring, Rights, Differences

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• It is easy now to break the vows. It is even easier to part your ways if vows haven't been taken.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Taken, Way, Easy

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

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• We are living at the moment in revolutionary times. Argentineans probably are more aware of it than anybody else, because they tasted it several years earlier - but now the whole world is in trouble.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Years, World, Revolutionary

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

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• The inequality between the world's individuals is staggering.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  World, Individual, Inequality

  Source: www.theoryculturesociety.org

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• "Once there, always there", would give you less freedom than you recently enjoyed, but more security. Security not in the sense of safety from terrorists, burglars, or pickpockets... but security in the sense of knowing where you are, who you are, on what kind of future you can count, what will happen, whether you will preserve your position in society or whether you will be degraded and humiliated - this sort of security. This sort of security for many, many people - a rising number of people - looks at the moment more attractive than more freedom.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Numbers, Knowing, People

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• Life purpose may be shifted from achieving a 'steady state' (an equilibrium between desires and plausibilities) to the excitement of running after novelties. In other words, be guided by new desires, not by extant needs.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Running, Desire, Needs

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

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• The descent of Israel from the morally towering position of a 'light for the nations' to the lowest of the low and one of the last relics of bygone shameful times of merciless imperialism, conquest, exploitation is on the cards.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Light, Israel, Lasts

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

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• Throughout early modernity there were very strong pressures on Jews to assimilate. Assimilating meant cutting your ties with the community of origin.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Strong, Cutting, Ties

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

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• The secret of every durable ... social system is the recasting of 'functional prerequisites' into behavioral motives for actors.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Secret, Actors, Social

  Zygmunt Bauman (2008). “Does Ethics Have a Chance in a World of Consumers?”

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• 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. Eros won't outlast duality. As far as love is concerned, possession, power, fusion and disenchantment are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Love Is, Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse, Roaming

  Zygmunt Bauman (2013). “Liquid Love: On the Frailty of Human Bonds”, p.16, John Wiley & Sons

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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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• Once upon a time there were the Pampas in Argentina, that people could treat as "empty lands" and where they could run away from their problems from problem-ridden homes. That eventuality is no longer available.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Running, Home, Land

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

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• Marcus Aurelius appoints personal character and conscience the ultimate refuge of happiness-seekers: the only place where dreams of happiness, doomed to die childless and intestate anywhere else, are not bound to be frustrated.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Dream, Character, Frustrated

  Zygmunt Bauman (2013). “The Art of Life”, p.1992, John Wiley & Sons

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• At the turn of the twenty-first century, the richest 5 percent of people receive one-third of total global income, as much as the poorest 80 percent.

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  People, Twenties, Income

  Source: www.theoryculturesociety.org

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• Every interpretation is but an introduction to another interpretation, and that is how Talmud pages are printed.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Pages, Interpretation, Introduction

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

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• Security is the slogan for people who feel unable to function by their own means.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Mean, People, Function

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

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• Freedom is the slogan which speaks to the ears of people who feel strong enough to manage on their own using their own resources, who can do without dependency because they can do without others caring for them.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Strong, Caring, People

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

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• Cornelius Castoriadis, the great French social philosopher of Greek origin, was asked once by an exasperated interviewer: "What do you want, Mr. Castoriadis - to change humanity?" He answered: "No, God forbid, I only want humanity to change itself, as it has done so many times in the past." I would be inclined to answer the same way.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Past, Humanity, Done

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

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• What is happening now is that the number of people who are not strong enough or do not feel strong enough to decide to live without the security provided by the community or the state, is going up.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Strong, Numbers, People

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

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• As long as being a stranger and surrounded by strangers was seen as a temporary irritant, a smallest departure from the binding rules of conduct by a member of a minority, was taken for a major crime justifying deportation.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Taken, Long, Minorities

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

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• I worry about the Israeli moral standard, Israeli humanity.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Worry, Humanity, Moral

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

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• The question of identity has separated from the issue of 'assimilation', having lost much of its drama and become, so to speak, a secular problem.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Drama, Issues, Identity

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

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• Christ could not create a codified 'Christian ethics'; such a thing would be a contradiction in terms.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Christian, Would Be, Ethics

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

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