Todd Gitlin Quotes

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

Power, Able, Process

I am a realist as well as an idealist, and I think that it is incumbent upon those of us in opposition to try to work within what are always arduous circumstances to stretch the limits of the possible.
Todd Gitlin

Work, Try, Possible

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

Change, Century, Leaves

All I will say is that there are particular features of the American constitutional system that renders a third party futile - at best.
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Best, American, System

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

Easy, Reasons, Variety

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

Live, Media, Psychic

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

Human, Makes, Everyday

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

Society, Anyone, Media

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

Care, Old, Dream

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

History, Subject, Proper

My business is the analytical framework.
Todd Gitlin

Business, Analytical, Framework

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

Power, Media, Navigation

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

Politics, State

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

American, Culture, Hybrid

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

Patriotism, Close, Surpass

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

Experience, Often, Sure

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

Past, America, Year

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

Period, Desires, Driven

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

Power, Win, Anywhere

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

History, Today, Justice

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

American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions.
Todd Gitlin

Music, Power, Freedom

As I write at the end, if we step back and face the enormity of the torrent, then we have taken the first step to imagining what we might want to do about it.
Todd Gitlin

End, Write, Face

I don't for the life of me understand how anybody could contemplate the results of the 2000 election in the US and say that electoral politics doesn't matter any more, and that Ralph Nader was right when he said there is no difference between the two parties.
Todd Gitlin

Life, Politics, Two

I first came to think about media and politics in the late 1960s, having observed some distortions up close, but since then I wouldn't say that my personal experience has remained an important motive for my writing about media.
Todd Gitlin

Politics, Experience, Important

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