63 Quotes by Todd Gitlin

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.

Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given.

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

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.

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

Mills insisted that a sociologist's proper subject was the intersection of biography and history.

Right now, we have no possibility of politics because we have a one-party state.

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

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