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. — David Riesman Copy Share Image
Drivers in a traffic jam, frustrated by each others presence, are not the most amiable of men. — David Riesman Copy Share
Nowadays, truth is the greatest news. The mass media are the wholesalers, the peer groups, the retailers of the communications industry. — David Riesman Copy Share
If you want to get out of medicine the fullest enjoyment, be students all your lives. — David Riesman Copy Share
A spurious democracy has influenced both our research methods (I am sometimes tempted to define "validity" as part of the context of an experiment… — David Riesman Copy Share
It is not new for the older generation to bewail the indolence of the young, and there is a tendency for the latter to… — David Riesman Copy Share
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… — David Riesman Copy Share
It is among the less privileged groups relatively new to leisure and consumption that the zest for possessions retains something of its pristine energy. — David Riesman Copy Share
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… — David Riesman Copy Share
“...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… — David Riesman Copy Share
Social Science … led us to the fallacy that, since all men have their being in culture and as a result of culture, they… — David Riesman Copy Share
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… — David Riesman Copy Share
The premonition of death may for many be a stimulus to novelty of experience: the imminence of death serves to sweep away the inessential… — David Riesman Copy Share
Our society offers little in the way of reeducation for those who have been torn away from their traditional culture and suddenly exposed to… — David Riesman Copy Share
In preindustrial cultures leisure is scarcely a burden or a "problem" because it is built into the ritual and ground plan of life for… — David Riesman Copy Share
