It is not new for the older generation to bewail the indolence of the young, and there is a tendency for the latter to maintain much of the older ethic screened by a new semantics and an altered ideology. David Riesman More Quotes by David Riesman More Quotes From David Riesman Men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other. David Riesman freedom class men Words not only affect us temporarily; they change us, they socialize or unsocialize us. David Riesman change Nowadays, truth is the greatest news. The mass media are the wholesalers, the peer groups, the retailers of the communications industry. David Riesman gossip communication media The ethical regime [of the Jews] was quite definitely Ptolemaic, revolving around the small group of Jews, not the larger Gentile group and, accordingly, they learned to remain unimpressed by Gentile temporal power. Being unimpressed did not mean being unafraid material power might beat or starve one to death; it did mean refusing to surrender moral hegemony to the majority merely because it had power. David Riesman majority might mean The children themselves, before they get access to a car, are captives of their suburb, save for those families where the housewives surrender continuity in their own lives to chauffeur their children to lessons, doctors, and other services that could be reached via public transport in the city. David Riesman doctors cities children Etiquette can be at the same time a means of approaching people and of staying clear of them. David Riesman manners mean people 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 chinese humorous america If you want to get out of medicine the fullest enjoyment, be students all your lives. David Riesman enjoy-life medicine want Those who are excluded from meaningful work are, by an large, excluded from meaningful play. David Riesman meaningful-work play meaningful Our society offers little in the way of reeducation for those who have been torn away from their traditional culture and suddenly exposed to all the blandishments of mass culture-even the churches which follow the hillbillies to the city often make use of the same "hard sell" that the advertisers and politicians do. David Riesman mass-culture cities education It is among the less privileged groups relatively new to leisure and consumption that the zest for possessions retains something of its pristine energy. David Riesman zest groups energy If anything remains more or less unchanged, it will be the role of women. David Riesman remains roles ifs The media, far from being a conspiracy to dull the political sense of the people, could be viewed as a conspiracy to disguise the extent of political indifference. David Riesman empathy media people 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. David Riesman work may helping 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. David Riesman weekend hard-work night The situation of the factory worker today is reminiscent in certain respects of that of the nineteenth-century capitalist whose wife dragged him reluctantly toward "culture" and away from his "materialistic" preoccupations. David Riesman wife today culture The premonition of death may for many be a stimulus to novelty of experience: the imminence of death serves to sweep away the inessential preoccupations for those who do not flee from the thought of death into triviality. David Riesman preoccupation novelty may A decline of exuberance is just barely noticeable in America, making itself felt particularly among the most highly educated and the well-to-do in a loss of appetite for work and perhaps even for leisure. David Riesman enthusiasm loss america Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them. David Riesman questioning sentences looks Drivers in a traffic jam, frustrated by each others presence, are not the most amiable of men. David Riesman frustrated jam men
