Zygmunt Bauman Quotes

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.

Zygmunt Bauman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

SmartFeelEasyLookRelationships

We talk about institutions that are too big to fail - I think the story is as much about people who think they are too big to fail.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

PeopleStoryThinkTalkFailBig

Do I think it's OK to fight authority as long as you're only talking about the high school teacher? No.

John Mellencamp

TeacherFightSchoolThinkTalking

I learned a ton of things during my time in CNET.

Matt Mullenweg

TimeThingsMy TimeLearnedTon

I believe that detente was having almost the opposite effect of what was intended. What was intended was to sort of end the contest for power and to stop Soviet expansion, especially by military means and the military build-up, the military contest.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

PowerBelieveEndStopI Believe

I believe we are most beautiful when we are constantly shedding our old selves and moving into new light.

Suki Waterhouse

BeautifulLightMovingBelieveNew

I like to reminisce with people I don't know.

Steven Wright

PeopleKnowReminisceLike

I don't like singing before noon.

Sting

SingingLikeNoonBefore

You definitely have to be focused at certain times in your life and in your career, but at the end of the day, there's only so much you can do. Then you just have to chock it up to fate.

Skylar Astin

LifeDayFateEnd Of The DayEndUp

There is no singular 'reason' why Africans use fractals, any more than a singular reason why Americans like rock music. Such enormous cultural practices just cover too much social terrain.

Ron Eglash

MusicToo MuchRockWhyMoreReason

One reason I didn't trust my writing for so long was that I always considered myself a serious dramatic actor. But people would always laugh when I shared my writing with them. It took my husband to help me see that I really am part humorist.

Ruby Dee

MyselfTrustPeopleMeWritingHelp

Being partly Italian or, rather, having an Italian last name, I've always dreamed of really becoming partly Italian, of eating piles of mouthwatering fettuccine in the piazza, speaking a language that demands music over mumble, and yes, if I'm honest, perhaps dressing a little better.

Michael Paterniti

MusicEatingNameLanguageBetter

If you reduce the guns and the ammo, you'll reduce the murders.

Michael Moore

YouGunsReduce

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