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> [One of the things people are fleeing when they leave the city is the need either to reject people who are less well educated than themselves, or to accept them with all that implies for their children's education and future…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-riesman/one-of-the-things-people-are-fleeing-when-they-leave-the-city-is-the/)

[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/)

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

> [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/)

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

> [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/)

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

> [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/)

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

> [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/)

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

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