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01Undated

Navigation is power of a limited sort - it enables us to manage the immensity of the media torrent.

Todd Gitlin / quote

02Undated

There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment to a way of life, and nationalism, which is the insistence that your way of life deserves to rule over other ways of life.

Todd Gitlin / quote

03Undated

The mobilisation which Bush has been able to perform since 11 September 2001 has to be fought - at least by Americans - in the name of a wise, honourable and democratic patriotism.

Todd Gitlin / quote

04Undated

Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don't.

Todd Gitlin / quote

05Undated

The only people available to change the world are the people now living in it, with all the beliefs they bring along - however retrograde those beliefs may appear to those of us who see ourselves as enlightened.

Todd Gitlin / quote