Peter

“A consumerist attitude may lubricate the wheels of the economy; it sprinkles sand into the bearings of morality.”
― Zygmunt Bauman, Moral Blindness: The Loss of Sensitivity in Liquid Modernity

“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

“A society notorious for effacing the boundary which once separated the private from the public, for making it a public virtue and obligation to publicly expose the private, and for wiping away from public communication anything that resists being reduced to private confidences, together with those who refuse to confide them.”
― Zygmunt Bauman, Consuming Life

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