"Men are created different; they lose their social……" — David Riesman
"Men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other."
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31 Quotes by David Riesman
David Riesman has 31 quotes on this site.
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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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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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If anything remains more or less unchanged, it will be the role of women.
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More Autonomy Quotes
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I'm pretty horrible at relationships and haven't been in many long-term ones. Leaving and moving on - returning to a…
— Carrie Brownstein
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Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even…
— Marshall McLuhan
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Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.
— Denis Waitley
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Seen in retrospect, evolution as a whole doubtless had a general direction, from simple to complex, from dependence on to…
— Theodosius Dobzhansky
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The things we really need come to us only as gifts, and in order to receive them as gifts we…
— Thomas Merton
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While the earnings of a minority are growing exponentially, so too is the gap separating the majority from the prosperity…
— Pope Francis
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Carla Hesse has given us an astonishing new look at women's struggle for independent expression and moral autonomy during the…
— Natalie Zemon Davis
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The unity of the human race, as envisaged by Bahá'u'lláh, implies the establishment of a world commonwealth in which all…
— Shoghi Effendi
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At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy.
— Harold Bloom
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I want to reduce the size of government in half as a percentage of GNP [gross national product] over the…
— Grover Norquist
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It is quite clear that as long as the nations of the world spend most of their energy, money, and…
— Isaac Asimov
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Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves. Free choice among a wide variety of goods…
— Herbert Marcuse
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