"Like Americans, people outside America want fun, want……" — Todd Gitlin
"Like Americans, people outside America want fun, want an emotional compensation for the utilitarianism and calculation that mark the rest of their lives."
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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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A century of convulsive change leaves huge demographic gouge marks.
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