Todd Gitlin Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“So American culture is itself a hybrid and lends itself to use in other people's hybrids.”

“The moguls are driven by their respective desires for profit - period.”

“To win power anywhere you have to convince people that you can do something for them.”

“We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The only people available to change the world are the people now living in it, with all the beliefs they bring along - however retrograde those beliefs may appear to those of us who see ourselves as enlightened.”

“Like Americans, people outside America want fun, want an emotional compensation for the utilitarianism and calculation that mark the rest of their lives.”

“My position is not that John Kerry is either Jesus Christ or the prophet Mohammad. My position is that John Kerry is the possibility of restarting politics.”

“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.”