Zygmunt Bauman Quotes
Zygmunt Bauman was a Polish-British sociologist and social philosopher and one of the most widely read social theorists of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Driven from Poland by the antisemitic campaign of 1968, he settled at the University of Leeds, where he produced an extraordinary body of work on modernity, ethics, and the conditions of contemporary social life. The quotes below are attributed to Zygmunt Bauman, organized by topic.
Zygmunt Bauman on Freedom
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Attributed to Zygmunt Bauman:
“Freedom in liquid modernity is the freedom to choose, but not the freedom to escape choice.”
Zygmunt Bauman on Politics
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Attributed to Zygmunt Bauman:
“The Holocaust was not a deviation from modernity but one of its possibilities.”
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Attributed to Zygmunt Bauman:
“Strangers are people who do not fit our cognitive maps; that is what makes them strange.”
Zygmunt Bauman on Time
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Attributed to Zygmunt Bauman:
“Modernity is liquid; nothing solid lasts long enough to take its shape.”
Zygmunt Bauman on Virtue
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Attributed to Zygmunt Bauman:
“Ethics begins where comfort ends.”