Daniel J. Boorstin World Quotations

The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.

There was a time when the reader of an unexciting newspaper would remark, 'How dull is the world today!' Nowadays he says, 'What a dull newspaper!'

By reading we discover our world, our history, and ourselves.

God is the celebrity author of the world's best seller. We have made god into the biggest celebrity of all, to contain our own emptiness.

In the twentieth century our highest praise is to call the Bible 'The World's Best Seller.' And it has come to be more and more difficult to say whether we think it is a best seller because it is great, or vice versa.

Never have people been more the masters of their environment. Yet never has a people felt more deceived and disappointed. For never has a people expected so much more than the world could offer.

The traveler used to go about the world to encounter the natives. A function of travel agencies now is to prevent this encounter.

The Republic of Technology where we will be living is a feedback world.