David Riesman Quotes

American sociologist and educator (1909–2002)

David Riesman (September 22, 1909 – May 10, 2002) was a sociologist, attorney, and educator.

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Why, I ask, why 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 by the advertising men who create it?

Words not only affect us temporarily; they change us, they socialize or unsocialize us.

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.