Class Quote by David Riesman Download Open image “It is no longer clear which way is up even if one wants to rise.” — David Riesman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Class Clear Ifs Want Way
In actual life a downward movement may sometimes be made the beginning of an ascent. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
If anything remains more or less unchanged, it will be the role of women. — 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 Image
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 Image
If you want to get out of medicine the fullest enjoyment, be students all your lives. — David Riesman 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 an experiment… — David Riesman 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 latter to… — David Riesman 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 reluctantly toward… — David Riesman 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 pristine energy. — David Riesman 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 doing so-their… — David Riesman 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, least of… — David Riesman Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
If I had to guess and put a name on it, I'd say that at some point, the drug war was as much a… — David Simon Copy Share Image
It must be assumed and established as a principle, that the right of private property must be regarded as sacred. Wherefore, the law ought to favor this right and, so far as it can, see that the largest possible number among the masses of the population prefer to own property… But if the productive activity of the multitude can be… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share
The rich people are apparently leaving America. They're giving up their citizenship. These great lovers of America who made their money in this country-when you ask them to pay their fair share of taxes they run abroad. We have 19-year old kids who lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan defending this country. They went abroad. Not to escape taxes.… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share
I certainly don't think that the heirs of the American Revolution were a particularly noble class. — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
You’re crazy,” said her best friend, Angela, as the bell rang to signal five minutes before the first class on the first day back… — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
Because there are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Right now, for many Americans, class is being foregrounded like never before because of the economic situation. It doesn't mean that race doesn't matter,… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
But I don't think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
