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Todd Gitlin

"I don't think anyone in the media thinks strategically about society."

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"I don't think anyone in the media thinks strategically about society."

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"Most peoples are prisoners of other people's thoughts."

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"Your water is in the bottles, and my water is in the bucket, but we are brothers? I am collecting garbage, and you are in the bed, but we are sisters? My fingers are broken, and your hands are so soft, but we are family? Your God is like an angel, and my God is like an evil, but we are equal? My stomach is empty, and your stomach is so big, but we are humans?"

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"We...advance toward a state of society in which not only each man but every impulse in each man claims carte blanche."

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"People are very busy; they are so busy that when they walk in the crowds they see no one, no one but themselves; they hear no voice, no voice but their own voice!"

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"Probably the people on the street know better than the people at home."

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"In a materialistic society, the dead body of a rich man's dog is regarded as a corpse; that of a poor man, a carcass."

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"People on corporate conveyor belts, like animals in slaughter-chutes are all part of the same big massacre of joy."

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"When modern sociologists talk of the necessity of accommodating one's self to the trend of the time, they forget that the trend of the time at its best consists entirely of people who will not accommodate themselves to anything. At its worst it consists of many millions of frightened creatures all accommodating themselves to a trend that is not there. And that is becoming more and more the situation...Every man speaks of public opinion, and means by public opinion, public opinion minus his opinion."

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"Poverty is like a crumb that sits at a table, and starves itself to death."

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"Navigation is power of a limited sort - it enables us to manage the immensity of the media torrent."
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"Sure, I've often been misrepresented - anyone frequently quoted has this experience."
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