Peter

“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum....”
― Noam Chomsky, The Common Good

“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, Collateral Damage: Social Inequalities in a Global Age

“Real dialogue isn’t about talking to people who believe the same things as you.”
― Zygmunt Bauman

“Desire and love act at cross purposes. love is a net cast on eternity, desire is a stratagem to be spared the chores of net weaving.

True to their nature, love would strive to perpetuate the desire. Desire, on the other hand, would shun love's shackles.”
― Zygmunt Bauman, Liquid Love: On the Frailty of Human Bonds