Peter

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

“... To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

“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

“To you is granted the power of degrading yourself into the lower forms of life, the beasts, and to you is granted the power, contained in your intellect and judgment, to be reborn into the higher forms, the divine.”
― Zygmunt Bauman, State of Crisis