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Zygmunt Bauman Quotes on Politics

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. This page collects quotes attributed to Zygmunt Bauman on the topic of politics, drawn from across the philosopher's works.

Quotes

  • Attributed to Zygmunt Bauman:

    “Modernity is liquid; nothing solid lasts long enough to take its shape.”

  • Attributed to Zygmunt Bauman:

    “The Holocaust was not a deviation from modernity but one of its possibilities.”

  • Attributed to Zygmunt Bauman:

    “Strangers are people who do not fit our cognitive maps; that is what makes them strange.”

  • Attributed to Zygmunt Bauman:

    “Freedom in liquid modernity is the freedom to choose, but not the freedom to escape choice.”