"Nowadays, truth is the greatest news. The mass……" — David Riesman
"Nowadays, truth is the greatest news. The mass media are the wholesalers, the peer groups, the retailers of the communications industry."
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David Riesman
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31 Quotes by David Riesman
David Riesman has 31 quotes on this site.
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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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If anything remains more or less unchanged, it will be the role of women.
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High thoughts must have high language.
— Aristophanes
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We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are…
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Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
— Matthew Arnold
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That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world,…
— Timothy Garton Ash
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I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
— Isaac Asimov
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Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn't mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you…
— Margaret Atwood
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
— Gaston Bachelard
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Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than…
— Francis Bacon
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What does music mean to me? I don't think I would really be much without it, without it coming through…
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An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.
— Walter Bagehot
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