Todd Gitlin Quotes

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• Sure, I've often been misrepresented - anyone frequently quoted has this experience.
• The moguls are driven by their respective desires for profit - period.
• To win power anywhere you have to convince people that you can do something for them.
• Today's global justice movement may be the biggest, most diverse and energetic in history.
• We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery.
• I don't for the life of me understand how anybody could contemplate the results of the 2000 election in the US and say that electoral…
• I first came to think about media and politics in the late 1960s, having observed some distortions up close, but since then I wouldn't say…
• My position is not that John Kerry is either Jesus Christ or the prophet Mohammad. My position is that John Kerry is the possibility of…
• The fancy term for what America has squandered in the past year and a half or so is legitimacy.
• My book is focused on the power of the American state, not least because the government of the United States governs so much that the…
• The only people available to change the world are the people now living in it, with all the beliefs they bring along - however retrograde…
• Like Americans, people outside America want fun, want an emotional compensation for the utilitarianism and calculation that mark the rest of their lives.
• As I write at the end, if we step back and face the enormity of the torrent, then we have taken the first step to…
• So every day I'm mindful as I watch the Bush crowd extend their sway into policies of every imaginable variety, and over almost every square…
• The manufacture of desire isn't at the heart - if it isn't absurd to speak of a heart - of the media torrent. Chronic dissatisfaction…

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