Zygmunt Bauman Quotes

We live in a globalising world. That means that all of us, consciously or not, depend on each other. Whatever we do or refrain from doing affects the lives of people who live in places we'll never visit.

Zygmunt Bauman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LivePeopleWorldDoingNeverUs

If I had to live on record sales, I'd be pushing up the daisies.

John McLaughlin

LiveSalesUpPushingRecordHad

I wanted to be a cartoonist. I was one of those kids who sat around and drew in my room all the time.

Michael Stuhlbarg

TimeRoomWhoKidsWantedAround

I take the responsibility of choosing seriously because it becomes an indelible part of your body of work. Something has to sing to me.

Mira Sorvino

WorkResponsibilityMeBodyTake

I am a senior Democratic Member of Congress whose parents were born in Puerto Rico and for whom Puerto Rico self-determination has been - and remains - a central issue of my congressional career.

Luis Gutierrez

I AmParentsCareerBornPuerto Rico

Cuba is such a beautiful country, and everywhere you go, there's music and people dancing - especially in Havana.

Julia Sawalha

MusicBeautifulPeopleYouCountry

As it turns out, what looks like science sometimes is not.

Jose Padilha

ScienceLooksSometimesOutLike

I do not think that war is always wrong: sometimes it is necessary to stop a dictator, prevent massive human-rights abuses, or expel an invader. But I have also seen that in the modern world, civil wars are the greatest threat to humanitarian security.

Jonathan Powell

WarWorldThinkSecurityWrongStop

I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.

Dean Koontz

FearWritingTalkingDesireNever

I'm horrible at auditions anyway. Maybe that's why I never got anything.

Chris Colfer

WhyNeverAnythingGotHorrible

There's been some research in cognitive science, I'm told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, it's white noise.

Christopher Hitchens

FaithSciencePeopleResearchWhite

There was never a moment when I was like, 'I'm going to enter the public conversation on the importance of female nudity.'

Chelsea Handler

MomentConversationNeverGoingLike

As long as your heart beats, one is never too old.

Compay Segundo

HeartLongNeverOldYourBeats

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