If anything remains more or less unchanged, it will be the role of women. — David Riesman Ifs Copy Share Image
Drivers in a traffic jam, frustrated by each others presence, are not the most amiable of men. — David Riesman Amiable Copy Share Image
Nowadays, truth is the greatest news. The mass media are the wholesalers, the peer groups, the retailers of the communications industry. — David Riesman Communication Copy Share Image
If you want to get out of medicine the fullest enjoyment, be students all your lives. — David Riesman Enjoyment Copy Share Image
A spurious democracy has influenced both our research methods (I am sometimes tempted to define "validity" as part of the context of… — David Riesman Certain Copy Share Image
It is not new for the older generation to bewail the indolence of the young, and there is a tendency for the… — David Riesman Altered Copy Share Image
The situation of the factory worker today is reminiscent in certain respects of that of the nineteenth-century capitalist whose wife dragged him… — David Riesman Capitalist Copy Share Image
It is among the less privileged groups relatively new to leisure and consumption that the zest for possessions retains something of its… — David Riesman Acquisition Copy Share Image
Though top executives may work as hard as ever-in part perhaps because, being trained in an earlier day, they can hardly help… — David Riesman Executives Copy Share Image
“...isn't it possible that advertising as a whole is a fantastic fraud, presenting an image of America taken seriously by no one,… — David Riesman Marketing Copy Share Image
Social Science … led us to the fallacy that, since all men have their being in culture and as a result of… — David Riesman Altruism Copy Share Image
Why, I ask, isn't it possible that advertising as a whole is a fantastic fraud, presenting an image of America taken seriously… — David Riesman Advertising Copy Share Image
The premonition of death may for many be a stimulus to novelty of experience: the imminence of death serves to sweep away… — David Riesman Death Copy Share Image
Our society offers little in the way of reeducation for those who have been torn away from their traditional culture and suddenly… — David Riesman Advertisers Copy Share Image
In preindustrial cultures leisure is scarcely a burden or a "problem" because it is built into the ritual and ground plan of… — David Riesman Attitude Copy Share Image
A decline of exuberance is just barely noticeable in America, making itself felt particularly among the most highly educated and the well-to-do… — David Riesman America Copy Share Image
The children themselves, before they get access to a car, are captives of their suburb, save for those families where the housewives… — David Riesman Access Copy Share Image
Today the future occupation of all moppets is to be skilled consumers. — David Riesman Career Copy Share Image
Mass entertainment in America has been dominated for a long time by the mode of documentary realism. — David Riesman America Copy Share Image
The closest thing we have to the traditional ideology of the leisure class is a group of artists and intellectuals who regard… — David Riesman Art Copy Share Image
It is no longer clear which way is up even if one wants to rise. — David Riesman Class Copy Share Image
The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different; they lose their social… — David Riesman Freedom Copy Share Image
One of the things people are fleeing when they leave the city is the need either to reject people who are less… — David Riesman Accepting Copy Share Image
Words not only affect us temporarily; they change us, they socialize or unsocialize us. — David Riesman Change Copy Share Image
Those who are excluded from meaningful work are, by an large, excluded from meaningful play. — David Riesman Excluded Copy Share Image
