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Happiness needs one-upmanship.
— Zygmunt Bauman
The secret of every durable ... social system is the recasting of 'functional prerequisites' into behavioral motives for actors.
— Zygmunt Bauman
We belong to talking, not what talking is about ... Stop talking - and you are out. Silence equals exclusion.
— Zygmunt Bauman
And the enticement to seek a rose without thorns is never far away and always difficult to resist.
— Zygmunt Bauman
there are only a few obvious things that I notice as primarily beautiful: women, spring evenings, music at night, the sea;
— F Scott Fitzgerald
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
Man is in his short sojourn on earth equal to God in His eternity.
— Zygmunt Bauman
Madness is no madness when shared.
— Zygmunt Bauman
Housework can kill you if done right.
— Erma Bombeck
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
What happens is never unpredictable: there are always breaches, carelessness, incompetence, omissions, which have not prevented the occurrence.
— Zygmunt Bauman
Questioning the ostensibly unquestionable premises of our way of life is arguably the most urgent of services we owe our fellow humans and ourselves.
— Zygmunt Bauman
When did creating a flawless facade become a more vital goal than learning to love the person who lives inside your skin?
— Ellen Hopkins
He believes that words can be a powerful healing tool if used with loving intention, to uplift, encourage and inspire.
— John McLeod
This awful concept of underclass is really horrifying. You're not lower class, you are excluded - outside.
— Zygmunt Bauman
A consumerist attitude may lubricate the wheels of the economy; it sprinkles sand into the bearings of morality.
— Zygmunt Bauman
Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.
— Zygmunt Bauman
The rationality of the ruled is always the weapon of the rulers.
— Zygmunt Bauman
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
Relationships, like cars, should undergo regular services to make sure they are still roadworthy.
— Zygmunt Bauman
Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind.
— Calvin Coolidge
You judge a society by the decency of living of the weakest
— Zygmunt Bauman
I was leftwing, I am leftwing, and I will die leftwing.
— Zygmunt Bauman
I just know I'm going to be an actress. I want it so bad.
— Anna Nicole Smith
Avoid the crowd, avoid mass audiences, keep your own counsel, which is the counsel of philosophy of wisdom you can acquire and make your own.
— Zygmunt Bauman
For intellectual authority, the appropriate version of Descartes 's cogito would be today: I am talked about, therefore I am.
— Zygmunt Bauman
As far as love is concerned, possession, power, fusion and disenchantment are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
— Zygmunt Bauman
I do have friends who make movies, but for the most part, I never really wanted to feel like I was part of an industry.
— Harmony Korine
For one to be free there must be at least two.
— Zygmunt Bauman