Great Throughts Treasury
This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
David Riesman
American Socialogist, Attorney, Educator Writer, Lecturer, clerked for Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis
"Words not only affect us temporarily; they change us, they socialize or unsocialize us."
"Men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other."
"People tend to remember best the things they have felt most deeply."
"The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other."
"The society of incipient population decline develops in its typical members a social character whose conformity is insured by their tendency to be sensitized to the expectations and preferences of others."