Zygmunt Bauman Quotes
Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.
Bauman, Zygmunt. Liquid Times: Living in an Age of Uncertainty. Polity Press, 2007.
Churchill's first government job was as Undersecretary of the Colonies. Shortly after his appointment he observed:
Zygmunt Bauman was a Polish sociologist and philosopher. He was driven out of the Polish People's Republic during the 1968 Polish political crisis and forced to give up his Polish citizenship. He emigrated to Israel; three years later he moved to the United Kingdom. He resided in England from 1971, where he studied at the London School of Economics and became Professor of Sociology at the University of Leeds, later Emeritus. Bauman was a social theorist, writing on issues as diverse as modernity and the Holocaust, postmodern consumerism and liquid modernity.
