David Riesman Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by David Riesman:

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.
~David Riesman


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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.
~David Riesman


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/david-riesman-quotes/#c241ca35

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/david-riesman-quotes/#dce76738

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?
~David Riesman


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/david-riesman-quotes/#15757633

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