"We live in a world of communication - everyone gets information about everyone else. There is universal comparison and you don't just compare yourself with the people next door, you compare yourself to people all over the world and with what is being presented as the decent, proper and dignified life. It's the crime of humiliation."

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Source : "Passion and pessimism" by Madeleine Bunting, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2003.

Zygmunt Bauman

#Communication Quotes #Doors Quotes #People Quotes

“While his removal will not necessarily bring an immediate end to terrorist activity, I have absolutely no doubt that the world is a safer place without Osama Bin Laden.”
“My 10 year old son likes it. He's trying to play guitar and everything. He likes that kind of music.”
“I am interested in costume. Clothes in your daily life are important: your choices say something about you, even if what they're saying is about non-choice. And what you wear in a film is crucial.”
“As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.”
“When I watch a film I get swept away. I don't really watch the camera.”
“Anyone who, for 25 years, has built a career on such tenuous foundations as a high-pitched giggle, a raspberry and a sprinkling of top 'Cs' needs all the friends he can get.”
“The downward spiral of Dumbness in America is about to hit a new low.”

Source : Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.266, Pan Macmillan
“Every sleepy boy and girl in every bed around the world- Can hear the stars up in the sky whispering a lullaby”

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