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Daniel J. Boorstin Quotes
«In fast-moving, progress-conscious America, the consumer expects to be dizzied by progress. If he could completely understand advertising jargon he would be badly disappointed. The half-intelligibility which we expect, or even hope, to find in the latest product language personally reassures each of us that progress is being made: that the pace exceeds our ability to follow.»
«What preoccupies us, then, is not God as a fact of nature, but as a fabrication useful for a God-fearing society. God himself becomes not a power but an image.»
Author: Daniel J. Boorstin
| Keywords:
fabrication, fearing, god-fearing, preoccupied, preoccupies, preoccupy
«The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises.»
«The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.»
Author: Daniel J. Boorstin
| Keywords:
uncorrupted
«We expect to eat and stay thin, to be constantly on the move and ever more neighbourly . . . to revere God and to be God.»
«When they built this building they were afraid to say that beauty is truth for fear that it wouldn't be by the time it was completed.»
Author: Daniel J. Boorstin
«Standing, standing, standing - why do I have to stand all the time? That is the main characteristic of social Washington.»
Author: Daniel J. Boorstin
«Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.»
Author: Daniel J. Boorstin
«The traditional novel form continues to enlarge our experience in those very areas where the wide-angle lens and the Cinema screen tend to narrow it.»
Author: Daniel J. Boorstin
| Keywords:
areas, continues, enlarge, lens, lenses, The Lens, to enlarge, traditional, wide-angle, wide-angle lens, wide screen
