Zygmunt Bauman Quotes

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 GNP but by the condition of its worst off.

Zygmunt Bauman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: sociologist
  • Nationality: polish
  • Birth: November 19, 1925 - January 9, 2017

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Putting babies as young as two weeks into child care for the first year of their life, for 60 hours a week, will cause their brains damage.

Mem Fox

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Reality TV, although I'm a part of it, I think reality TV is a terrible thing.

Andre Leon Talley

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I'll let life take me where it will.

Matthias Schoenaerts

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By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Americans every day against abuse of power by those in authority.

John Roberts

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When I was 26, 27 years old I was running a kitchen in New York, and I was a raving lunatic. The older you get, you figure out you don't need to do that. You realize at a certain point, there's a certain gravity to what you say and what you do. If that's not enough, all the yelling in the world is not going to matter.

Tom Colicchio

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Glorious as it had been, the city-state was obsolete.

Robert A. Dahl

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The first person to blow up my fashion consciousness was a 14-year-old girl named Sandrine. She was the most beautiful human I had ever seen.

Mary Gaitskill

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I don't have to have any special skills or martial arts in my back pocket.

Jason Ritter

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The most basic duty of government is to defend the lives of its own citizens. Any government that fails to do so is a government unworthy to lead.

Donald Trump

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I would never give anybody any advice about anything.

Clive Owen

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I'm home a lot. Because I live in Ireland, we can live under the celebrity radar. I might go missing for a whole year.

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I'm not going to coach again. I've done my coaching, and I think I can put that aside.

Phil Jackson

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