"In preindustrial cultures leisure is scarcely a burden……" — 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 which people are conditioned in childhood; often they possess a relatively timeless attitude toward events."
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David Riesman
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31 Quotes by David Riesman
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Nowadays, truth is the greatest news. The mass media are the wholesalers, the peer groups, the retailers of the communications…
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It is no longer clear which way is up even if one wants to rise.
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Men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.
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Words not only affect us temporarily; they change us, they socialize or unsocialize us.
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The media, far from being a conspiracy to dull the political sense of the people, could be viewed as a…
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If you want to get out of medicine the fullest enjoyment, be students all your lives.
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Those who are excluded from meaningful work are, by an large, excluded from meaningful play.
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Social Science … led us to the fallacy that, since all men have their being in culture and as a…
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Why, I ask, isn't it possible that advertising as a whole is a fantastic fraud, presenting an image of America…
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The premonition of death may for many be a stimulus to novelty of experience: the imminence of death serves to…
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Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
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Today the future occupation of all moppets is to be skilled consumers.
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