"The children themselves, before they get access to……" — David Riesman
"The children themselves, before they get access to a car, are captives of their suburb, save for those families where the housewives surrender continuity in their own lives to chauffeur their children to lessons, doctors, and other services that could be reached via public transport in the city."
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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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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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More Access Quotes
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One of the factors a country's economy depends on is human capital. If you don't provide women with adequate access…
— Michelle Bachelet
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Our children's health and well-being are dependent on our commitment to promoting food access and good eating habits at home,…
— Rod Blagojevich
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But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one…
— Bono
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I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You're…
— David Bowie
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We believe that within five years, 96 percent of British consumers will have access to the Internet, whether it be…
— Richard Branson
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Every child in American should have access to a well-stocked school library.
— Laura Bush
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Actors, their greatest tool, their greatest resource is imagination. You can take things, power objects, you can recruit your dreams,…
— Nicolas Cage
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I know there's been a lot that's been said about animated voice work, as though it's 'you can do this…
— Nicolas Cage
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Trying to block women from getting access to contraception or defunding Planned Parenthood is completely nonsensical from a policy standpoint.
— Richard Carmona
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Magazine stories, the best ones anyway, are generally a combination of three elements: access, narrative, and disclosure.
— Graydon Carter
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Cyber bullies can hide behind a mask of anonymity online, and do not need direct physical access to their victims…
— Anna Maria Chavez
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You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all…
— Deepak Chopra
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