Todd Gitlin

“If you don't have a plan, you become part of somebody else's plan.”

“The relentless unforeseen, that is the main fact of history.”

“What moves people to mass action is not a satisfying explanation of the world but a belief that the world can be changed.”

“Americans are over-entertained and under-informed.”

“Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.”

“The media have become not just a window on the world, but a world in themselves.”

“Celebrity is a condition of being simultaneously conspicuous and hollow.”

“The problem is not that people are stupid. It's that they're busy.”

“The promise of the new media is the same as the promise of the old media: to bring people together, to inform them, to entertain them.”

“Movements are born of hope.”

“There's a lot of noise in the world, and the only way to get through it is to be very, very clear about what you're trying to say.”