Zygmunt Bauman Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“Capitalism proceeds through creative destruction. What is created is capitalism in a 'new and improved' form - and what is destroyed is self-sustaining capacity, livelihood and dignity of its innumerable and multiplied 'host organisms' into which all of us are drawn/seduced one way or another.”

“In a world of global dependencies with no corresponding global polity and few tools of global justice, the rich of the world are free to pursue their own interests while paying no attention to the rest.”

“Human attention tends to be focused on the satisfactions relationships are hoped to bring, precisely because somehow they have not been truly satisfactory. And if they do satisfy, the price of this satisfaction has often been found to be unacceptable.”

“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.”

“Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.”

“This awful concept of underclass is really horrifying. You're not lower class, you are excluded - outside.”

“Happiness needs one-upmanship.”

“I was leftwing, I am leftwing, and I will die leftwing.”