"The modern suburb is the product of the……" — David Riesman

The modern suburb is the product of the car, the five-day week,… - David Riesman

"The modern suburb is the product of the car, the five-day week, and the "bankers' hours" of the masses."

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31 Quotes by David Riesman

David Riesman has 31 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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

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More Bankers Quotes

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The way the bankers have kind of toppled the way money is distributed, and taken most of it into their… — Mario Batali
I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again.… — Jean Baudrillard
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk. — Bertolt Brecht
What's breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank? — Bertolt Brecht
Civilizations are not remembered by their business people, their bankers or lawyers. They're remembered by the arts. — Eli Broad
Because bankers measure their self-worth in money, and pay themselves a lot of it, they think they're fine fellows and… — James Buchan
If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss… — Woody Allen
If I did not believe in God, I should still want my doctor, my lawyer and my banker to do… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
What a child does not know and does not want to know of race and color and class, he learns… — Beryl Markham
Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker. — Charles Caleb Colton
Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin... Bankers own the Earth. Take it away from them but leave… — Josiah Stamp
... [I]nfectious disease is merely a disagreeable instance of a widely prevalent tendency of all living creatures to save themselves… — Hans Zinsser

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