As far as love is concerned, possession, power, fusion and disenchantment are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
Zygmunt BaumanIn Celan's words a Jew is "a man with a little book under the shoulder." We are the keepers of tradition.
Zygmunt BaumanThe secret of every durable ... social system is the recasting of 'functional prerequisites' into behavioral motives for actors.
Zygmunt BaumanYou are a stranger, I am a stranger, we all remain strangers, and nevertheless we can like or even love each other.
Zygmunt BaumanWhy are people so concerned with relativism? If you look back in history, millions of people were killed because of someone's dogmatic views, but I do not remember anybody being killed due to the tolerance of difference, to relativism; ethically relativism does not seem to be such an awful thing, really.
Zygmunt Bauman