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Quotes from Individualism Reconsidered — David Riesman

1909–2002 United States

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Those who are excluded from meaningful work are, by and large, excluded from meaningful play.

Individualism Reconsidered (1954)

The premonition of death may for many be a stimulus to novelty of experience: the imminence of death serves to sweep away the inessential preoccupations for those who do not flee from the thought of death into triviality.

Individualism Reconsidered (1954)

A spurious democracy has influenced both our research methods (I am sometimes tempted to define “validity” as part of the context of an experiment demanding so little in the way of esoteric gift that any number can play at it, provided they have taken a certain number of courses) and our research subjects (it would be deemed snobbish to investigate only the best people).

Individualism Reconsidered (1954)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: David Riesman (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.