The Republic of Technology where we will be living is a feedback world. — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event. — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
There was a time when the reader of an unexciting newspaper would remark, 'How dull is the world today!' Nowadays he says,… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
In the twentieth century our highest praise is to call the Bible 'The World's Best Seller.' And it has come to be… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
God is the celebrity author of the world's best seller. We have made god into the biggest celebrity of all, to contain… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Never have people been more the masters of their environment. Yet never has a people felt more deceived and disappointed. For never… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Best-sellerism is the star system of the book world. A "best seller" is a celebrity among books. It is a book known… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesting from God to the newspaperman. — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
The traveler used to go about the world to encounter the natives. A function of travel agencies now is to prevent this… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
The modern American tourist now fills his experience with pseudo-events. He has come to expect both more strangeness and more familiarity than… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
In our world of big names, curiously, our true heroes tend to be anonymous. In this life of illusion and quasi-illusion, the… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
While the focus in the landscape of Old World cities was commonly government structures, churches, or the residences of rulers, the landscape… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Of all the nations in the world, the United States was built in nobody's image. It was the land of the unexpected,… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
The American citizen lives in a world where fantasy is more real than reality, where the image has more dignity than its… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
America has been a land of dreams. A land where the aspirations of people from countries cluttered with rich, cumbersome, aristocratic, ideological… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
The improved American highway system isolated the American-in-transit. On his speedway he had no contact with the towns which he by-passed. If he stopped… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share
Modern tourist guides have helped raised tourist expectations. And they have provided the natives- from Kaiser Wilhelm down to the villagers of Chichacestenango -… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share
Each living art object, taken out of its native habitat so we can conveniently gaze at it, is like an animal in a zoo.… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share
Probably no one of us has the True Religion. But all of us together - if we are allowed to be free - are… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share
An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share
[The Library of Congress] is a multimedia encyclopedia. These are the tentacles of a nation. — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share
It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world. — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share
Not so many years ago there was no simpler or more intelligible notion than that of going on a journey. Travel -movement through space… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share
The computer can help us find what we know is there. But the book remains our symbol and our resource for the unimagined question… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share
In fast-moving, progress-conscious America, the consumer expects to be dizzied by progress. If he could completely understand advertising jargon he would be badly disappointed.… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share
Being known primarily for their well-knownness, celebrities intensify their celebrity images simply by becoming widely known for relations among themselves. By a kind of… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share
While the focus in the landscape of Old World cities was commonly government structures, churches, or the residences of rulers, the landscape and the… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share
In the small town each citizen had done something in his own way to build the community. The town booster had a vision of… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share
Any government which made the welfare of men depend on the character of their governors was an illusion. — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share
