Zygmunt Bauman

The market is the new god, and we are its faithful worshippers.

Social media friendships are the illusions of connection.

The end of the twentieth century was the end of certainty.

Ethics is about responsibility to the other, not to the self.

Migration is the human condition in liquid times.

Work in liquid modernity is a gamble, not a career.

Beauty is fleeting, but in consumer culture, it's for sale.

The artist in postmodernity is a bricoleur, piecing together fragments.

Death is the ultimate individualization.

Politics today is about managing fears, not solving problems.

The family is no longer a haven but a hotel.

Knowledge in liquid times is power, but power is fluid.

Utopia is dead, but dystopia is alive and well.

In an age of excess, the poor are the excess.

Loneliness is the price of freedom in modern society.

The sociologist's job is to disturb the comfortable.

Time is money, but money buys no time.

Globalization means the world is our village, but villages have fences.

The liquid self is forever under construction.

In the end, we are all strangers to ourselves.