A Writer's Wit: David Riesman

The idea that men [sic] 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.
​David Riesman
​Author of The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character
​Born September 22, 1909

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