Occupation: Sociologist Birth: November 19, 1925 Death: January 9, 2017
Security without freedom means slavery..
The value of other people is that they have something unique to offer..
You judge a society by the decency of living of the weakest.
Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done..
A whole world is taken to the grave with the dead person; each one of us is unique and unrepeatable..
We live in a globalising world. That means that all of us, consciously or not, depend on each other. Whatever we do or refrain from doing affects the….
Relationships, like cars, should undergo regular services to make sure they are still roadworthy..
For one to be free there must be at least two..
The rationality of the ruled is always the weapon of the rulers..
Our bad luck is that our writing is linear, while we think circularly..
Ideally, nothing should be embraced by a consumer firmly, nothing should command a commitment till death do us part, no needs should be seen as fully….
The woe of mortality makes humans God-like. It is because we know that we must die that we are so busy making life. It is because we are aware of mor….
Unlike 'real relationships', 'virtual relationships' are easy to enter and to exit. They look smart and clean, feel easy to use, when compared with t….
Questioning the ostensibly unquestionable premises of our way of life is arguably the most urgent of services we owe our fellow humans and ourselves..
We have found ourselves in the period of "interregnum": the old works no more, the new is not yet born. But the awareness that without it being born ….
What has been cut apart cannot be glued back together. Abandon all hope of totality, future as well as past, you who enter the world of fluid moderni….
The consumerist culture insists that swearing eternal loyalty to anything and anybody is imprudent, since in this world new glittering opportunities ….
In our world of rampant individualisation, relationships are mixed blessings. They vacillate between a sweet dream and a nightmare, and there is no t….
As long as we say: "Alright, it is truth for me, and I believe in it and I am ready to fight for it, but I accept that others have different beliefs ….
You are a stranger, I am a stranger, we all remain strangers, and nevertheless we can like or even love each other..
In a liquid modern life there are no permanent bonds, and any that we take up for a time must be tied loosely so that they can be untied again, as qu….