Once we realize that the strangers are here forever and won't go away, then, like husband and wife in the old-style marriage, we would try to find a way of living together peacefully and with mutual benefit. The sooner we understand that in a globalized world the diasporic nature of cohabitation is never likely to end, that it will always be with us, I believe such modus vivendi will be found.
Zygmunt BaumanIngeniously, capitalism discovered that the economy may be moved not by satisfying existing needs, but by creating new ones.
Zygmunt BaumanFully "biodegradable" structures are nowadays the ideal and the standards to which most, if not all structures, struggle to measure up.
Zygmunt BaumanPeople do not choose a government that will bring the market within their control; instead, the market in every way conditions governments to bring the people within its control.
Zygmunt Bauman