Quotessence
Home / Authors / Zygmunt Bauman
Zygmunt Bauman

Zygmunt Bauman Quotes

Sociologist

Filter quotes by topic

AllPeopleWorldIfsSecurityNeedsHumansThinkingWayConsumersDifferences

Famous Zygmunt Bauman Quotes

“Once we realize that the strangers are here forever and won't go away, then, like husband and wife in the old-style marriage, we would try to find a way of living together peacefully and with mutual benefit. The sooner we understand that in a globalized world the diasporic nature of cohabitation is never likely to end, that it will always be with us, I believe such modus vivendi will be found.”

WorldWayTryingBelieveEndsTogetherFoundI BelieveRealizingForeverWifeStyleHusbandBenefitsStrangerMutualGoing AwayHusband And WifeLiving TogetherCohabitationMutual Benefit
Author:Zygmunt Bauman
Create image

“I worry about younger generations who were born to view their country trampling on humanity of everyone that comes in its way, as the 'normal state of affairs" - because they knew no other. We know how easy it is to shed, under such circumstances, the thin and frail veneer of civilization, not to mention the moral standards of which the Jews were presumed to be the world's teachers.”

KnowsWorldWayCountryStatesHumanityEasyBornViewsMoralWorryKnow HowTeacherGenerationsCircumstancesCivilizationNormalStandardsAffairJewShedFrailYounger GenerationVeneer
Author:Zygmunt Bauman
Create image

“There are, by the most conservative counting, two grave and deeply regrettable collateral victims of the peer-review gruesome stratagem: one is the daring of thought (wished-washed to the lowest common denominator), and the other is the individuality, as well as the responsibility, of editors (those seeking shelter behind the anonymity of "peers", but in fact dissolved in it, in many cases without a trace).”

WellsTwoFactsCommonBehindsResponsibilityCasesVictimIndividualityConservativeSeekingGravesEditorsReviewsDaringShelterPeersLowestCountingAnonymityCommon DenominatorStratagemCollateralLowest Common DenominatorWithout A TracePeer Review
Author:Zygmunt Bauman
Create image

“I suspect that the peer-review system carries a good part of blame for the fact that something like sixty percent or more of journal articles are never quoted (which means leaving no trace on our joint scholarly pursuits), and (in my reception at any rate) the "learned journals" (with a few miraculous exceptions that entail, prominently, TCS) ooze monumental boredom.”

MeanFactsPercentBlameRateLeavingPursuitBoredomExceptionCarrieSuspectsReviewsArticlesSixtyPeersJournalMiraculousJointsReceptionScholarlyPeer Review
Author:Zygmunt Bauman
Create image

“Ideally, nothing should be embraced by a consumer firmly, nothing should command a commitment till death do us part, no needs should be seen as fully satisfied, no desires considered ultimate. There ought to be a proviso 'until further notice' attached to any oath of loyalty and any commitment. It is but the volatility, the in-built temporality of all engagements that truly counts; it counts more than the commitment itself, which is anyway not allowed to outlast the time necessary for consuming the object of desire (or, rather, the time sufficient for the desirability of that object to wane).”

NeedsShouldDesireObjectsOughtCommitmentBuiltUltimateLoyaltySatisfiedCommandConsumersSufficientEngagementConsumingOathVolatilityDesirabilityTemporalityObjects Of Desire
Book:Globalization: The Human Consequences
Create image

“Partnerships are increasingly seen through the prism of promises and expectations, and as a kind of product for consumers: satisfaction on the spot, and if not fully satisfied, return the product to the shop or replace it with a new and improved one! You don't, after all, stick to your car, or computer, or iPod, when better ones appear.”

IfsKindCarProductsReturnPromiseComputerExpectationsSticksSatisfactionSatisfiedSpotsConsumersShopsPartnershipIpodsPrisms
Author:Zygmunt Bauman
Create image

“Attempts to tame the wayward and domesticate the riotous, to make the unknowable predictable and enchain the free-roaming - all such things sound the death knell to love. Eros won't outlast duality. As far as love is concerned, possession, power, fusion and disenchantment are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.”

SoundLove IsFourConcernedPossessionApocalypsePredictableDualityFusionErosRoamingHorsemenDisenchantmentFour HorsemenFour Horsemen Of The Apocalypse
Book:Liquid Love: On the Frailty of Human Bonds
Create image