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1. "Partnerships are increasingly seen through the prism of promises and expectations, and as a kind of product for consumers: satisfaction on the spot, and if not fully satisfied, return the product to the shop or replace it with a new and improved one! You don't, after all, stick to your car, or computer, or iPod, when better ones appear." ~ Zygmunt Bauman
2. "For one to be free there must be at least two." ~ Zygmunt Bauman
3. "Arlie Russell Hochschild resume "el daño colateral" fundamental causado en el curso de la invasion consumista en una expresion tan incisiva como sucinta: "la materialización del amor"." ~ Zygmunt Bauman
4. "Um aspecto muito visível do desaparecimento das velhas garantias é a nova fragilidade dos laços humanos. A fragilidade e transitoriedade dos laços pode ser um preço inevitável do direito de os indivíduos perseguirem seus objetivos individuais, mas não pode deixar de ser, simultaneamente, um obstáculo dos mais formidáveis para perseguir eficazmente esses objetivos -- e para a coragem necessária para persegui-los." ~ Zygmunt Bauman
5. "The consumerist culture insists that swearing eternal loyalty to anything and anybody is imprudent, since in this world new glittering opportunities crop up daily." ~ Zygmunt Bauman
6. "There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production." ~ Zygmunt Bauman
7. "Unlike 'real relationships', 'virtual relationships' are easy to enter and to exit. They look smart and clean, feel easy to use, when compared with the heavy, slow-moving, messy real stuff." ~ Zygmunt Bauman
8. "Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done." ~ Zygmunt Bauman
9. "The carrying power of a bridge is not the average strength of the pillars, but the strength of the weakest pillar. I have always believed that you do not measure the health of a society by GNP but by the condition of its worst off." ~ Zygmunt Bauman
10. "We live in a globalising world. That means that all of us, consciously or not, depend on each other. Whatever we do or refrain from doing affects the lives of people who live in places we'll never visit." ~ Zygmunt Bauman
11. "Like the phoenix, socialism is reborn from every pile of ashes left day in, day out, by burnt-out human dreams and charred hopes." ~ Zygmunt Bauman
12. "The task for sociology is to come to the help of the individual. We have to be in service of freedom. It is something we have lost sight of." ~ Zygmunt Bauman
13. "We belong to talking, not what talking is about... Stop talking - and you are out. Silence equals exclusion." ~ Zygmunt Bauman
14. "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." ~ Zygmunt Bauman
15. "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." ~ Zygmunt Bauman
16. "In our world of rampant 'individualisation', relationships are mixed blessings. They vacillate between a sweet dream and a nightmare, and there is no telling when one turns into the other." ~ Zygmunt Bauman
17. "Happiness needs one-upmanship." ~ Zygmunt Bauman
18. "I was leftwing, I am leftwing, and I will die leftwing." ~ Zygmunt Bauman
19. "This awful concept of underclass is really horrifying. You're not lower class, you are excluded - outside." ~ Zygmunt Bauman
20. "Why do I write books? Why do I think? Why should I be passionate? Because things could be different, they could be made better." ~ Zygmunt Bauman
21. "Civilisation, the orderly world in which we live, is frail. We are skating on thin ice. There is a fear of a collective disaster. Terrorism, genocide, flu, tsunamis." ~ Zygmunt Bauman
22. "Attempts to tame the wayward and domesticate the riotous, to make the unknowable predictable and enchain the free-roaming - all such things sound the death knell to love." ~ Zygmunt Bauman
23. "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." ~ Zygmunt Bauman
24. "In a consumer society, people wallow in things, fascinating, enjoyable things. If you define your value by the things you acquire and surround yourself with, being excluded is humiliating." ~ Zygmunt Bauman
25. "Os filhos estão entre as aquisições mais caras que o consumidor médio pode fazer ao longo de toda a sua vida. Em termos puramente monetários, eles custam mais do que um carro luxuoso do ano, uma volta ao mundo em um cruzeiro ou até mesmo uma mansão. Pior ainda, o custo total tende a crescer com o tempo, e seu volume não pode ser fixado de antemão nem estimado com algum grau de certeza. [...] Além disso, ter filhos é, em nossa época, uma questão de decisão, não um acidente - o que aumenta a ansiedade. Tê-los ou não é comprovadamente a decisão com maiores consequências e de maior alcance que existe, e portanto também a mais angustiante e estressante." ~ Zygmunt Bauman
26. "If political rights are necessary to set social rights in place, social rights are indispensable to make political rights 'real' and keep them in operation. The two rights need each other for their survival; that survival can only be their joint achievement." ~ Zygmunt Bauman

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