Quotes from David Riesman

While all people want and need to be liked by some of the people some of the time, it is only the modern other-directed types who make this their chief source of direction and chief area of sensitivity.

Today the future occupation of all moppets is to be skilled consumers.

The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.

Social Science … led us to the fallacy that, since all men have their being in culture and as a result of culture, they owe a debt to that culture which even a lifetime of altruism could not repay.

If you want to get out of medicine the fullest enjoyment, be students all your lives.

Etiquette can be at the same time a means of approaching people and of staying clear of them.

Mass entertainment in America has been dominated for a long time by the mode of documentary realism.

Nowadays, truth is the greatest news. The mass media are the wholesalers, the peer groups, the retailers of the communications industry.

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.

America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese.

Drivers in a traffic jam, frustrated by each others presence, are not the most amiable of men.

Those who are excluded from meaningful work are, by an large, excluded from meaningful play.

There is evidence that young men in the big law firms, although they still work harder than most of their clients, do not glory in putting in night work and weekend hours as they once did.

Though top executives may work as hard as ever-in part perhaps because, being trained in an earlier day, they can hardly help doing so-their subordinates are somewhat less work-minded.

The closest thing we have to the traditional ideology of the leisure class is a group of artists and intellectuals who regard their work as play and their play as work.

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

isn't it possible that advertising as a whole is a fantastic fraud, presenting an image of America taken seriously by no one, least of all the advertising men who create it?

America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese.

Con ng??i sinh ra Ä'ã khác nhau; h? Ä'ánh m?t tá»± do xã há»™i và Ä'á»™c l?p cá nhân c?a mình trong khi tìm cách tr? thành gi?ng nhau.

The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.

Today the future occupation of all moppets is to be skilled consumers.