#society
60 quotes
“in the course of, and through comparison”
“The sociologist influencing Labour's new generation”
“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.”
“Once governments exclude people you can stop them from being protected. Societies begin to manipulate fears about groups. When the welfare state is in crisis we have to be concerned about such a feature of [society]”
“A good society is a society which believes that it is not good enough; that it is the task of the collectivity to insure individuals against individually suffered misfortune; and that the quality of society is measured by the quality of life of its weakest, just like the carrying power of a bridge is measured by its weakest pillar. Quoted in "Ziggy Stardust" , New Humanist”
“Professor with a past”
“What did that involve, exactly?”
“[After an article by Bogdan Musiał was published in Poland alleging Bauman had worked for the Polish secret service] The fact that I for three years cooperated with intelligence”
“[Following the second world war] If you looked at the political spectrum in Poland at that time, the Communist party promised the best solution. Its political programme was the most fitting for the issues which Poland faced. And I was completely dedicated. Communist ideas were just a continuation of the Enlightenment.”
“Passion and pessimism”
“Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by. Shadow and Act (New York: Random House, 1964), Introduction, p. xix; in The Collected Essays , ed. John F. Callahan (New York: Modern Library, 1995), p. 56.”
“What These Children Are Like”
“The Golden Age, Time Past”
“Some Questions and Some Answers”
“The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstances, whether created by others or by one's own human failing. "Remembering Jimmy " (1958), in The Collected Essays , ed. John F. Callahan (New York: Modern Library, 1995), p. 277.”
“Change the Joke and Slip the Yoke”
“Society, Morality and the Novel”
“The Art of Fiction: An Interview”
“Brave Words for a Startling Occasion”
“Richard Wright 's Blues”
“When I was a student in the 1950s, I read Husserl, Sartre, Merleau”
“I'm very proud that some people think that I'm a danger for the intellectual health of students. When people start thinking of health in intellectual activities, I think there is something wrong. In their opinion I am a dangerous man, since I am a crypto”
“I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning. If you knew when you began a book what you would say at the end, do you think that you would have the courage to write it? What is true for writing and for a love relationship is true also for life. The game is worthwhile insofar as we don't know what will be the end. My field is the history of thought. Man is a thinking being. Truth, Power, Self : An Interview with Michel Foucault”
“Friendship as a Way of Life,”
“Power, Moral Values, and the Intellectual”
“Dits et Écrits 1954”
“Marxism exists in nineteenth”
“Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same: leave it to our bureaucrats and our police to see that our papers are in order. At least spare us their morality when we write. The Archaeology of Knowledge (1972), tr. A. M. Sheridan Smith”
“[T]ruly to escape Hegel involves an exact appreciation of the price we have to pay to detach ourselves from him. It assumes that we are aware of the extent to which Hegel, insidiously perhaps, is close to us; it implies a knowledge, in that which permits us to think against Hegel, of that which remains Hegelian. We have to determine the extent to which our anti”
“We should admit rather that power produces knowledge (and not simply by encouraging it because it serves power or by applying it because it is useful); that power and knowledge directly imply one another. Michel Foucault, quoted in Subrata Chattopadhyay Banerjee”
“Negroes Are Anti”
“The American Dream and the American Negro”
“Has the American Dream Been Achieved at the Expense of the American Negro?”
“Doom and glory of knowing who you are”
“One must say Yes to life, and embrace it wherever it is found”
“Despair is a sin. I believe that. It is easy to be bleak about the human race, but there are people who have proved to me that we can be better than we are. Interview with M. S. Handler of the New York Times (3 June 1964), quoted in 'Demand For Presidential Lead On U.S. Race Issue', The Times (4 June 1963), p. 10”
“The Cross of Redemption”
“As Much Truth As One Can Bear”
“The Creative Process”
“are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It takes enormous and, above all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other people that these words imply.”
“Martin Heidegger at Eighty,”
“I've begun so late, really only in recent years, to truly love the world ... Out of gratitude, I want to call my book on political theories Amor Mundi . Speaking of her book The Human Condition , as quoted in Hannah Arendt: For Love of the World (2004) by Elisabeth Young”
“Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom. As quoted in The Concise Columbia Dictionary of Quotations (1989) edited by Robert Andrews, p. 114”
“The sad truth of the matter is that most evil is done by people who never made up their minds to be or do either evil or good. The Life of the Mind (1978), "Thinking”
“The law of progress holds that everything now must be better than what was there before. Don’t you see if you want something better, and better, and better, you lose the good? The good is no longer even being measured. Interview with French writer Roger Errera in New York Review of Books”
“The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. The New Yorker”
“Political questions are far too serious to be left to the politicians. Men in Dark Times”
“Niemand hat das Recht zu gehorchen.”
“What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core. On Revolution (1963), ch. 2”
“In politics , love is a stranger, and when it intrudes upon it nothing is being achieved except hypocrisy. All the characteristics you stress in the Negro people: their beauty, their capacity for joy, their warmth, and their humanity, are well”
“La difficulté d'écrire l'anglais m'est extrêmement ennuyeuse. Ah, mon Dieu! si l'on pouvait toujours écrire cette belle langue de France! The difficulty of writing English is most tiresome to me. My God! If only we could write this beautiful language of France at all times!”
“On the public execution on 6 July 1840 of the valet François Benjamin Courvoisier , who had murdered his employer Lord William Russell .”
“I was present, myself, at the execution of Courvoisier . I was, purposely, on the spot, from midnight of the night before; and was a near witness of the whole process of the building of the scaffold, the gathering of the crowd, the gradual swelling of the concourse with the coming”
“O let us love our occupations, Bless the squire and his relations, Live upon our daily rations, And always know our proper stations. The Chimes , Second Quarter”
“I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here. Comment while on an American tour (March 1842), as quoted in Dickens (1949) by Hesketh Pearson, Ch. 8”
“The bright old day now dawns again; the cry runs through the land, In England there shall be dear bread”
“To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart. Master Humphrey's Clock , (1840) Vol. 1”
“Love is not a feeling to pass away, Like the balmy breath of a summer day; It is not”
“If any one were to ask me what in my opinion was the dullest and most stupid spot on the face of the Earth, I should decidedly say Chelmsford . Letter to Thomas Beard (11 January 1835), in Madeline House, et al ., The Letters of Charles Dickens (1965), p. 53”
“A Dinner at Poplar Walk”