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> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-riesman/america-is-not-only-big-and-rich-it-is-mysterious-and-its-capacity/)

[David Riesman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-riesman/)

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## More by David Riesman

> [If anything remains more or less unchanged, it will be the role of women.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-riesman/if-anything-remains-more-or-less-unchanged-it-will-be-the-role-of/)

[David Riesman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-riesman/)

> [Drivers in a traffic jam, frustrated by each others presence, are not the most amiable of men.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-riesman/drivers-in-a-traffic-jam-frustrated-by-each-others-presence-are-not/)

[David Riesman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-riesman/)

> [Nowadays, truth is the greatest news. The mass media are the wholesalers, the peer groups, the retailers of the communications industry.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-riesman/nowadays-truth-is-the-greatest-news-the-mass-media-are-the/)

[David Riesman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-riesman/)

> [If you want to get out of medicine the fullest enjoyment, be students all your lives.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-riesman/if-you-want-to-get-out-of-medicine-the-fullest-enjoyment-be-students/)

[David Riesman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-riesman/)

> [A spurious democracy has influenced both our research methods (I am sometimes tempted to define "validity" as part of the context of an experiment…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-riesman/a-spurious-democracy-has-influenced-both-our-research-methods-i-am/)

[David Riesman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-riesman/)

> [It is not new for the older generation to bewail the indolence of the young, and there is a tendency for the latter to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-riesman/it-is-not-new-for-the-older-generation-to-bewail-the-indolence-of-the/)

[David Riesman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-riesman/)

> [The situation of the factory worker today is reminiscent in certain respects of that of the nineteenth-century capitalist whose wife dragged him reluctantly toward…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-riesman/the-situation-of-the-factory-worker-today-is-reminiscent-in-certain/)

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> [It is among the less privileged groups relatively new to leisure and consumption that the zest for possessions retains something of its pristine energy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-riesman/it-is-among-the-less-privileged-groups-relatively-new-to-leisure-and/)

[David Riesman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-riesman/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-riesman/though-top-executives-may-work-as-hard-as-ever-in-part-perhaps/)

[David Riesman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-riesman/)

> [“...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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-riesman/isn-t-it-possible-that-advertising-as-a-whole-is-a-fantastic-fraud/)

[David Riesman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-riesman/)

> [Social Science … led us to the fallacy that, since all men have their being in culture and as a result of culture, they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-riesman/social-science-led-us-to-the-fallacy-that-since-all-men-have-their/)

[David Riesman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-riesman/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-riesman/why-i-ask-isn-t-it-possible-that-advertising-as-a-whole-is-a/)

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> [The premonition of death may for many be a stimulus to novelty of experience: the imminence of death serves to sweep away the inessential…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-riesman/the-premonition-of-death-may-for-many-be-a-stimulus-to-novelty-of/)

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> [Our society offers little in the way of reeducation for those who have been torn away from their traditional culture and suddenly exposed to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-riesman/our-society-offers-little-in-the-way-of-reeducation-for-those-who/)

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> [In preindustrial cultures leisure is scarcely a burden or a "problem" because it is built into the ritual and ground plan of life for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-riesman/in-preindustrial-cultures-leisure-is-scarcely-a-burden-or-a-problem/)

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