All I will say is that there are particular features of the American constitutional system that renders a third party futile - at best. Todd Gitlin American Sociologist More Todd Gitlin Quotes 0
American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions. Todd Gitlin American Sociologist More Todd Gitlin Quotes 0
Americas are, for a variety of reasons, the most adept at producing the kind of entertainment that delivers easy satisfactions. Todd Gitlin American Sociologist More Todd Gitlin Quotes 0
As I write at the end, if we step back and face the enormity of the torrent, then we have taken the first step to imagining what we might want to do about it. Todd Gitlin American Sociologist More Todd Gitlin Quotes 0
Collectively, we are in thrall to media - because they deliver to us many of the psychic goods we crave, and we know no other way to live. Todd Gitlin American Sociologist More Todd Gitlin Quotes 0
Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given. Todd Gitlin American Sociologist More Todd Gitlin Quotes 0
I am a realist as well as an idealist, and I think that it is incumbent upon those of us in opposition to try to work within what are always arduous circumstances to stretch the limits of the possible. Todd Gitlin American Sociologist More Todd Gitlin Quotes 0
I am concerned about how to reverse the process by which a fundamentalist right and a corporate elite were able to seize power in the United States. Todd Gitlin American Sociologist More Todd Gitlin Quotes 0
I don't for the life of me understand how anybody could contemplate the results of the 2000 election in the US and say that electoral politics doesn't matter any more, and that Ralph Nader was right when he said there is no difference between the two parties. Todd Gitlin American Sociologist More Todd Gitlin Quotes 0
I don't think anyone in the media thinks strategically about society. Todd Gitlin American Sociologist More Todd Gitlin Quotes 0
I first came to think about media and politics in the late 1960s, having observed some distortions up close, but since then I wouldn't say that my personal experience has remained an important motive for my writing about media. Todd Gitlin American Sociologist More Todd Gitlin Quotes 0
It's an old anarchist dream that people can take care of their own lives. Todd Gitlin American Sociologist More Todd Gitlin Quotes 0
Like Americans, people outside America want fun, want an emotional compensation for the utilitarianism and calculation that mark the rest of their lives. Todd Gitlin American Sociologist More Todd Gitlin Quotes 0
Mills insisted that a sociologist's proper subject was the intersection of biography and history. Todd Gitlin American Sociologist More Todd Gitlin Quotes 0
Navigation is power of a limited sort - it enables us to manage the immensity of the media torrent. Todd Gitlin American Sociologist More Todd Gitlin Quotes 0
Right now, we have no possibility of politics because we have a one-party state. Todd Gitlin American Sociologist More Todd Gitlin Quotes 0
So American culture is itself a hybrid and lends itself to use in other people's hybrids. Todd Gitlin American Sociologist More Todd Gitlin Quotes 0
So every day I'm mindful as I watch the Bush crowd extend their sway into policies of every imaginable variety, and over almost every square foot of earth, that the control of the American state is a matter of urgency. Todd Gitlin American Sociologist More Todd Gitlin Quotes 0
Some fine day, Democrats may figure out how to get on the right side of the value divide - how to define America as a place of the common good and not a playground of the strong. Todd Gitlin American Sociologist More Todd Gitlin Quotes 0
Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don't. Todd Gitlin American Sociologist More Todd Gitlin Quotes 0
Sure, I've often been misrepresented - anyone frequently quoted has this experience. Todd Gitlin American Sociologist More Todd Gitlin Quotes 0
The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on our eyeballs and eardrums, which in turn can be marketed to advertisers. Todd Gitlin American Sociologist More Todd Gitlin Quotes 0
The manufacture of desire isn't at the heart - if it isn't absurd to speak of a heart - of the media torrent. Chronic dissatisfaction is at the heart of the matter. Todd Gitlin American Sociologist More Todd Gitlin Quotes 0
The mobilisation which Bush has been able to perform since 11 September 2001 has to be fought - at least by Americans - in the name of a wise, honourable and democratic patriotism. Todd Gitlin American Sociologist More Todd Gitlin Quotes 0
There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment to a way of life, and nationalism, which is the insistence that your way of life deserves to rule over other ways of life. Todd Gitlin American Sociologist More Todd Gitlin Quotes 0