"A century of convulsive change leaves huge demographic……" — Todd Gitlin
"A century of convulsive change leaves huge demographic gouge marks."
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35 Quotes by Todd Gitlin
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There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment…
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My business is the analytical framework.
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Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given.
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American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself…
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The mobilisation which Bush has been able to perform since 11 September 2001 has to be fought - at least…
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Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don't.
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The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into…
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Some fine day, Democrats may figure out how to get on the right side of the value divide - how…
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Right now, we have no possibility of politics because we have a one-party state.
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I am concerned about how to reverse the process by which a fundamentalist right and a corporate elite were able…
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I am a realist as well as an idealist, and I think that it is incumbent upon those of us…
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All I will say is that there are particular features of the American constitutional system that renders a third party…
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More Century Quotes
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For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East.
— Karen Armstrong
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If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st…
— Karen Armstrong
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I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.
— Neil Armstrong
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John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is…
— Isaac Asimov
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When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men…
— Chinua Achebe
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When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.
— Chinua Achebe
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Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.
— Margaret Atwood
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You can examine the whole 19th century from the point of view of who would have maxed out their credit…
— Margaret Atwood
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It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses…
— Emilie Autumn
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The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the…
— Lord Acton
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As a great man's influence never ends, so also there is not definite finality, no end, to a great survey;…
— Cleveland Abbe
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Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century.
— Russell Baker
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