David Riesman Quotes
Men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.
Words not only affect us temporarily; they change us, they socialize or unsocialize us.
Nowadays, truth is the greatest news. The mass media are the wholesalers, the peer groups, the retailers of the communications industry.
Etiquette can be at the same time a means of approaching people and of staying clear of them.
The media, far from being a conspiracy to dull the political sense of the people, could be viewed as a conspiracy to disguise the extent of political indifference.
America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese.
Those who are excluded from meaningful work are, by an large, excluded from meaningful play.
Why, I ask, isn't it possible that advertising as a whole is a fantastic fraud, presenting an image of America taken seriously by no one, least of all by the advertising men who create it?
Though top executives may work as hard as ever-in part perhaps because, being trained in an earlier day, they can hardly help doing so-their subordinates are somewhat less work-minded.
There is evidence that young men in the big law firms, although they still work harder than most of their clients, do not glory in putting in night work and weekend hours as they once did.
Drivers in a traffic jam, frustrated by each others presence, are not the most amiable of men.
It is among the less privileged groups relatively new to leisure and consumption that the zest for possessions retains something of its pristine energy.
The modern suburb is the product of the car, the five-day week, and the "bankers' hours" of the masses.
Social Science … led us to the fallacy that, since all men have their being in culture and as a result of culture, they owe a debt to that culture which even a lifetime of altruism could not repay.
The closest thing we have to the traditional ideology of the leisure class is a group of artists and intellectuals who regard their work as play and their play as work.
Mass entertainment in America has been dominated for a long time by the mode of documentary realism.
The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.
Men are created different they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.
...isn't it possible that advertising as a whole is a fantastic fraud, presenting an image of America taken seriously by no one, least of all the advertising men who create it?