America Quote by David Riesman

If anything remains more or less unchanged, it will be the role of women.

— David Riesman

Drivers in a traffic jam, frustrated by each others presence, are not the most amiable of men.

— David Riesman

Nowadays, truth is the greatest news. The mass media are the wholesalers, the peer groups, the retailers of the communications industry.

— David Riesman

If you want to get out of medicine the fullest enjoyment, be students all your lives.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— David Riesman