Zygmunt Bauman

“En líneas muy generales, quienes esperan obtener y retener seguridad exponiéndose a los riesgos y los peligros de la libre elección suelen poner el énfasis en las virtudes de una identidad i...”

“Mientras que los beneficiarios de nuestra peligrosamente desequilibrada, inestable y poco equitativa globalización consideran su libertad sin freno el mejor medio para alcanzar su propia seg...”

“La no satisfacción de los deseos y la firme y eterna creencia de que cada acto destinado a satisfacerlos deja mucho que desear y es mejorable son el eje del motor de la economía orientada al...”

“Para que la búsqueda de realización personal no se detenga y para que las nuevas promesas sigan resultando seductoras y contagiosas, hay que romper las que se hayan hecho anteriormente y hay...”

“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.”

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

“Unlike 'real relationships', 'virtual relationships' are easy to enter and to exit. They look smart and clean, feel easy to use, when compared with the heavy, slow-moving, messy real stuff.”

“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...”

“The consumerist culture insists that swearing eternal loyalty to anything and anybody is imprudent, since in this world new glittering opportunities crop up daily.”

“I suspect that one of capitalism's crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well behind its own inventiveness, the arbitrariness o...”

“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...”

“In a liquid modern life there are no permanent bonds, and any that we take up for a time must be tied loosely so that they can be untied again, as quickly and as effortlessly as possible, wh...”

“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.”

“This awful concept of underclass is really horrifying. You're not lower class, you are excluded - outside.”

“There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.”

“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.”

“Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.”

“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 it...”

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

“The carrying power of a bridge is not the average strength of the pillars, but the strength of the weakest pillar. I have always believed that you do not measure the health of a society by G...”