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This awful concept of underclass is really horrifying. You're not lower class, you are excluded - outside.

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Like the phoenix, socialism is reborn from every pile of ashes left day in, day out, by burnt-out human dreams and charred hopes.

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In our world of rampant 'individualisation', relationships are mixed blessings. They vacillate between a sweet dream and a nightmare, and there is no telling when one turns into the other.

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As far as love is concerned, possession, power, fusion and disenchantment are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

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Unlike 'real relationships', 'virtual relationships' are easy to enter and to exit. They look smart and clean, feel easy to use, when compared with the heavy, slow-moving, messy real stuff.

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Relationships, like cars, should undergo regular services to make sure they are still roadworthy.

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Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.

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The consumerist culture insists that swearing eternal loyalty to anything and anybody is imprudent, since in this world new glittering opportunities crop up daily.

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Why do I write books? Why do I think? Why should I be passionate? Because things could be different, they could be made better.

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The risk of the Holocaust is not that it will be forgotten, but that it will be embalmed and surrounded by monuments and used to absolve all future sins.

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Biography

Nationality: Polish

Type: Sociologist

Born: November 19th, 1925

Died: January 9th, 2017

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