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We are always confronted with choice.
Zygmunt Bauman
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Zygmunt Bauman
Age: 91 †
Born: 1925
Born: November 19
Died: 2017
Died: January 9
Opinion Journalist
Philosopher
Sociologist
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Poznan
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Never paint epic canvases during the revolution, because the revolutionaries will tear them apart.
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This awful concept of underclass is really horrifying. You're not lower class, you are excluded - outside.
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Like the phoenix, socialism is reborn from every pile of ashes left day in, day out, by burnt-out human dreams and charred hopes.
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The Bible provides unity without imposing uniformity, without prohibiting change it is a standing invitation to thinking and to take responsibilities.
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Alas, you don't need monsters for monstrous deeds to be accomplished.
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We are already and will remain all in the same boat.
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In Celan's words a Jew is a man with a little book under the shoulder. We are the keepers of tradition.
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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.
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As long as being a stranger and surrounded by strangers was seen as a temporary irritant, a smallest departure from the binding rules of conduct by a member of a minority, was taken for a major crime justifying deportation.
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