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A century of convulsive change leaves huge demographic gouge marks. — Todd Gitlin

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

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

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

Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don't. — Todd Gitlin

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

Today's global justice movement may be the biggest, most diverse and energetic in history. — Todd Gitlin

Death displays nothing if not variety in its methods, which are often surprising and sometimes amusing. — Alan Dean Foster

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

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

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

My business is the analytical framework. — Todd Gitlin

The more intelligent our children, the better our lives and the richer our culture will be. — Jacque Fresco

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

I don't think anyone in the media thinks strategically about society. — Todd Gitlin

Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me. — Daniel Kahneman

Navigation is power of a limited sort - it enables us to manage the immensity of the media torrent. — Todd Gitlin

I'm continuing to do research into biker culture. — Ron Perlman

The fancy term for what America has squandered in the past year and a half or so is legitimacy. — Todd Gitlin

My body was a machine, plain and simple. I worked it to stay strong; I fed it to keep it running. — Ann Aguirre

Americas are, for a variety of reasons, the most adept at producing the kind of entertainment that delivers easy satisfactions. — Todd Gitlin

[I]n politics, reputation is the prologue to fact... — Todd Gitlin

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

It's an old anarchist dream that people can take care of their own lives. — Todd Gitlin

Sure, I've often been misrepresented - anyone frequently quoted has this experience. — Todd Gitlin