20 quotes by Zygmunt Bauman for anyone who is a sociology fan

The concern with the administration of life seems to distance the human being from moral reflection.

To love is to contribute to the world, each contribution being the living trait of the loving self. In love, the self is, piece by piece, transplanted into the world.

Crazy are just the unshared meanings. Madness is not madness when shared.

Social networks are very useful, they offer very pleasant services, but they are a trap.

We forget about love, friendship, feelings, a job well done. What you consume, what you buy, are just moral sedatives that soothe your ethical scruples.

Whoever wants to keep a swarm of bees in a desirable course will do better by tending the flowers in the field, not by training each bee.

Times are liquid because everything changes so quickly. Nothing is made to last, to be solid.

Is it not true that when everything is said about the main themes of human life, the most important things remain unsaid?

We live at the end of the future.

It was a catastrophe to drag the middle class into precariousness. The conflict is no longer between classes, it is between each one with society.

In the liquid landscape of modern life, relationships are perhaps the most common, acute, disturbing, and deeply felt representatives of ambivalence.

In the liquid landscape of modern life, relationships are perhaps the most common, acute, disturbing, and deeply felt representatives of ambivalence.

In the information age, invisibility is tantamount to death.

Loneliness breeds insecurity—but the relationship doesn’t seem to do anything else. In a relationship, you can feel as insecure as without it, or worse. Only the names you give to anxiety change.

But it has been proven beyond any reasonable doubt that our pain-induced intolerance is an inexhaustible source of commercial profits. For that reason, we can expect this intolerance of ours to get worse, rather than lessened.

Life is much greater than the sum of its moments.

The old sacred boundary between work hours and personal time has disappeared. We are permanently available, always on the job.

We forget about love, friendship, feelings, a job well done. What you consume, what you buy, are just moral sedatives that soothe your ethical scruples.

Without humility and courage there is no love. These two qualities are required, on enormous and continuous scales, when entering an uncharted and uncharted land. And it is to this territory that love leads when it settles in between two or more human beings.

It is not crises that change the world, but our reaction to them.