David Riesman Men Quotations

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.

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?

Men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.

Drivers in a traffic jam, frustrated by each others presence, are not the most amiable of men.

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.