Polish - Sociologist | November 19, 1925 - January 9, 2017
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 of its undertaking and the ruthlessness of the way in which it proceeds.
Zygmunt Bauman
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Human attention tends to be focused on the satisfactions relationships are hoped to bring, precisely because somehow they have not been truly satisfactory. And if they do satisfy, the price of this satisfaction has often been found to be unacceptable.
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Relationships, like cars, should undergo regular services to make sure they are still roadworthy.
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Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.
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