Zygmunt Bauman Quotes

In a consumer society, people wallow in things, fascinating, enjoyable things. If you define your value by the things you acquire and surround yourself with, being excluded is humiliating.

Zygmunt Bauman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

YourselfValueSurround YourselfYou

Mark Grotjahn's large new paintings abound with torrents of ropy impasto, laid down in thickets, cascading waves, and bundles that swell, braid around, or overlap one another.

Jerry Saltz

WavesDownNewMarkLargeAround

Fortunately, most things around the supermassive black hole are just going to go around it. They're going to orbit it. They don't actually get sucked in.

Andrea M. Ghez

BlackGoThingsGoingGetJust

Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime.

Maximilien Robespierre

InnocenceCrimeThroneStruggles

Obviously, personal responsibility is important. But there's no evidence that people who are poor are less ambitious than anyone else. In fact, many work long hours at backbreaking jobs.

Robert Reich

WorkResponsibilityPeopleLongPoor

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

GoodMarriageWifeHappyYouBad

I suppose I became in danger of overexposure, which is why, I think, doing theatre for a year is quite a sensible move - just to remember what it's all about, really.

Tom Goodman-Hill

TheatreThinkDoingRememberYear

I never thought about the relationship of my mother, my family, to the content of my work.

Robert Wilson

WorkFamilyMotherRelationship

You can tell a lot about a man's character by watching him win or lose money.

Molly Bloom

CharacterMoneyManWinWin Or Lose

At the heart of any drama, there's conflict. When you are acting, you get to play out the confrontations you want to have in real life but can't. Or the emotions that you would want to have in real life, but sometimes they are too difficult.

Julia Stiles

LifeHeartConflictYouActingPlay

I am nothing if not rational about what is worthy of my anxiety and what is not, and I refuse to live my life as if a giant bus is just around the corner, waiting to crush me the minute I step off the curb.

Deborah Copaken Kogan

LifeLiveI AmStepWaitingMe

Success is little more than a chemical compound of man with moment.

Philip Guedalla

SuccessMomentManMoreLittleThan

The young boys I speak with say to me: Why would I want to live in this world - where they rely on charity, dry pieces of bread and water, where they are subjected to harsh treatment, when they can be free and be the envy of their colleagues in the afterlife. They are only too eager to sign on the dotted line and join the ranks of the Taliban.

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

LiveWaterMeWorldFreeColleagues

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