Create Yours

Top 30 Todd Gitlin Quotes (2024 Update)

Todd Gitlin Quote: “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.”

1. “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

Todd Gitlin Quote: “It’s an old anarchist dream that people can take care of their own lives.”

2. “It’s an old anarchist dream that people can take care of their own lives.”

— Todd Gitlin

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

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

— Todd Gitlin

Todd Gitlin Quote: “The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on our eyeballs and eardrums, which in turn can be marketed to advertisers.”

4. “The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on our eyeballs and eardrums, which in turn can be marketed to advertisers.”

— Todd Gitlin

Todd Gitlin Quote: “So American culture is itself a hybrid and lends itself to use in other people’s hybrids.”

5. “So American culture is itself a hybrid and lends itself to use in other people’s hybrids.”

— Todd Gitlin

Todd Gitlin Quote: “Navigation is power of a limited sort – it enables us to manage the immensity of the media torrent.”

6. “Navigation is power of a limited sort – it enables us to manage the immensity of the media torrent.”

— Todd Gitlin

Todd Gitlin Quote: “There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment to a way of life, and nationalism, which is the insistence that your way of life deserves to rule over other ways of life.”

7. “There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment to a way of life, and nationalism, which is the insistence that your way of life deserves to rule over other ways of life.”

— Todd Gitlin

Todd Gitlin Quote: “Like Americans, people outside America want fun, want an emotional compensation for the utilitarianism and calculation that mark the rest of their lives.”

8. “Like Americans, people outside America want fun, want an emotional compensation for the utilitarianism and calculation that mark the rest of their lives.”

— Todd Gitlin

Todd Gitlin Quote: “A century of convulsive change leaves huge demographic gouge marks.”

9. “A century of convulsive change leaves huge demographic gouge marks.”

— Todd Gitlin

Todd Gitlin Quote: “My business is the analytical framework.”

10. “My business is the analytical framework.”

— Todd Gitlin

Todd Gitlin Quote: “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.”

11. “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

Todd Gitlin Quote: “Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don’t.”

12. “Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don’t.”

— Todd Gitlin

Todd Gitlin Quote: “Today’s global justice movement may be the biggest, most diverse and energetic in history.”

13. “Today’s global justice movement may be the biggest, most diverse and energetic in history.”

— Todd Gitlin

Todd Gitlin Quote: “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.”

14. “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

Todd Gitlin Quote: “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.”

15. “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

Todd Gitlin Quote: “My position is not that John Kerry is either Jesus Christ or the prophet Mohammad. My position is that John Kerry is the possibility of restarting politics.”

16. “My position is not that John Kerry is either Jesus Christ or the prophet Mohammad. My position is that John Kerry is the possibility of restarting politics.”

— Todd Gitlin

Todd Gitlin Quote: “Some fine day, Democrats may figure out how to get on the right side of the value divide – how to define America as a place of the common good and not a playground of the strong.”

17. “Some fine day, Democrats may figure out how to get on the right side of the value divide – how to define America as a place of the common good and not a playground of the strong.”

— Todd Gitlin

Todd Gitlin Quote: “Mills insisted that a sociologist’s proper subject was the intersection of biography and history.”

18. “Mills insisted that a sociologist’s proper subject was the intersection of biography and history.”

— Todd Gitlin

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

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

— Todd Gitlin

Todd Gitlin Quote: “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.”

20. “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

Todd Gitlin Quote: “Sure, I’ve often been misrepresented – anyone frequently quoted has this experience.”

21. “Sure, I’ve often been misrepresented – anyone frequently quoted has this experience.”

— Todd Gitlin

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

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

— Todd Gitlin

Todd Gitlin Quote: “I don’t think anyone in the media thinks strategically about society.”

23. “I don’t think anyone in the media thinks strategically about society.”

— Todd Gitlin

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

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

— Todd Gitlin

Todd Gitlin Quote: “All I will say is that there are particular features of the American constitutional system that renders a third party futile – at best.”

25. “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

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

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

— Todd Gitlin

Todd Gitlin Quote: “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.”

27. “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

Todd Gitlin Quote: “The mobilisation which Bush has been able to perform since 11 September 2001 has to be fought – at least by Americans – in the name of a wise, honourable and democratic patriotism.”

28. “The mobilisation which Bush has been able to perform since 11 September 2001 has to be fought – at least by Americans – in the name of a wise, honourable and democratic patriotism.”

— Todd Gitlin

Todd Gitlin Quote: “The moguls are driven by their respective desires for profit – period.”

29. “The moguls are driven by their respective desires for profit – period.”

— Todd Gitlin

Todd Gitlin Quote: “Who of us does not recognize that the life we live, however larded with brave talk about values and thought and ideals, is not actually a life dedicated to immersion in the endless torrent of images, songs, sounds and stories?”

30. “Who of us does not recognize that the life we live, however larded with brave talk about values and thought and ideals, is not actually a life dedicated to immersion in the endless torrent of images, songs, sounds and stories?”

— Todd Gitlin

Motivational Quotes

Motivational Quotes

Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes

Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes

Positive Quotes

Positive Quotes

Albert Einstein Quotes

Albert Einstein Quotes

Motivational Quotes

Motivational Quotes

INSPIRATIONAL SUCCESS MOTIVATIONAL

Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes

Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes

ENTREPRENEURSHIP BUSINESS INSPIRATIONAL

Positive Quotes

Positive Quotes

Albert Einstein Quotes

Albert Einstein Quotes

ENTREPRENEURSHIP BUSINESS INSPIRATIONAL

Steve Jobs Quotes

Steve Jobs Quotes

ENTREPRENEURSHIP BUSINESS APPLE

Inspirational Quotes

Inspirational Quotes

COURAGE MOTIVATIONAL STRENGTH

INSPIRATIONAL SUCCESS MOTIVATIONAL

Swami Vivekananda Quotes

Swami Vivekananda Quotes

LIFE SPIRITUALITY

Save image...
Permalink
Open in new tab
Copy quote text

Beautiful Wallpapers and Images

We hope you enjoyed our collection of 30 Todd Gitlin Quotes.

All the images on this page were created with QuoteFancy Studio.

Use QuoteFancy Studio to create high-quality images for your desktop backgrounds, blog posts, presentations, social media, videos, posters, and more.

Thank you!

Please check your email.