The traveler used to go about the world to encounter the natives. A function of travel agencies now is to prevent this encounter.
Daniel J. BoorstinAmerican civilization, from its beginnings, had combined a dogmatic confidence in the future with a naive puzzlement over what the future might bring.
Daniel J. BoorstinAny government which made the welfare of men depend on the character of their governors was an illusion.
Daniel J. BoorstinEach living art object, taken out of its native habitat so we can conveniently gaze at it, is like an animal in a zoo. Something about it has died in the removal.
Daniel J. BoorstinI have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics and ideologues who menace decency and progress. No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever.
Daniel J. Boorstin