Zygmunt Bauman Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ImaginationCapitalismWayEconomists

It seems unfair that anyone can set up on Twitter using my name, or the name of any famous person, without any checks at all.

Shirley Eaton

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As it turns out, just hanging out around athletes doesn't actually make one more fit.

Mary Pilon

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Becoming a YA author was actually a very lucky accident. When I wrote the 'Queen of Everything,' I thought it was a book for adults.

Deb Caletti

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Truth is seldom appreciated and never understood, whereas a flattering lie is always appreciated and instantly understood.

Anthony McCarten

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No parent is there forever. So I won't be here forever with these kids.

Anthony Quinn

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Everyone says I'm intense, or I'm mad, or I play bad guys. I don't see any of that.

Sean Harris

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After Obama became president, I realized that black people could not have put him in the White House - it had to be a collective effort of everybody in the country.

Tyler Perry

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Empowerment of individuals is a key part of what makes open source work, since in the end, innovations tend to come from small groups, not from large, structured efforts.

Tim O'Reilly

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I've got that hands-on experience with federal judges and how important it is to have judges like Neil Gorsuch, who will take a rule-of-law approach to the decision-making process. I think he's eminently qualified.

Luther Strange

ExperienceThinkProcessImportant

Chance is a name for our ignorance.

Leslie Stephen

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The human race needs a time out from all this techno-magic-mischief, a period to reflect on what we've done and how we ought to behave with this stuff.

James Howard Kunstler

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I'm used to the Right being singled out by the entertainers.

Greg Gutfeld

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