Author: Zygmunt Bauman

Quotes

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.

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

As far as love is concerned, possession, power, fusion and disenchantment are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

As far as love is concerned, possession, power, fusion and disenchantment are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

- Zygmunt Bauman

Like the phoenix, socialism is reborn from every pile of ashes left day in, day out, by burnt-out human dreams and charred hopes.

Like the phoenix, socialism is reborn from every pile of ashes left day in, day out, by burnt-out human dreams and charred hopes.

- Zygmunt Bauman

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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