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David Riesman
American
Sociologist
About the author
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,
American
Sociologist
#America
If you want to get out of medicine the fullest enjoyment, be students all your lives.
David Riesman,
American
Sociologist
#Want
#Students
#Medicine
#Enjoyment
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,
American
Sociologist
#Freedom
#Men
#Idea
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,
American
Sociologist
#Men
#America
#Fraud
#Advertising