Quotes By Todd Gitlin

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.

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

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

So every day I'm mindful as I watch the Bush crowd extend their sway into policies of every imaginable variety, and over almost every square foot of earth, that the control of the American state is a matter of urgency.

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