It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world.
Daniel J. BoorstinAmericans expect to eat and stay thin, to be constantly on the move and ever more neighborly ... to revere God and be God.
Daniel J. BoorstinIt is very unlikely that the computer will displace the books, except in areas where we need information speedily.
Daniel J. BoorstinBeware of charisma . . . Representative Men; was Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1850 phrase for the great men in a democracy . . . Is there some common quality among these Representative Men who have been most successful as our leaders? I call it the need to be authentic-or, as our dictionaries tell us, conforming to fact and therefore worthy of trust, reliance or belief. While the charismatic has an uncanny outside source of strength, the authentic is strong because he is what he seems to be.
Daniel J. Boorstin