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«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.»
Author: David Riesman
| About:
Equality,
Freedom,
Men
| Keywords:
autonomy, mislead, misleading, seeking
«Why, I ask, 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?»
Author: David Riesman
| About:
Advertising
| Keywords:
as a whole, fantastic, fraud, least of all, presenting
«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.»
Author: David Riesman
| About:
America and Americans,
Country,
Humor
| Keywords:
Chinese, concealment, humorous, inscrutable, ironical, legendary, matches
«The mass media are the wholesalers; the peer-groups, the retailers of the communications industry»
«Words not only affect us temporarily; they change us, they socialize or unsocialize us.»
«Etiquette can be at the same time a means of approaching people and of staying clear of them.»
Author: David Riesman
«If you want to get out of medicine the fullest enjoyment, be students all your lives.»
Author: David Riesman
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