Famous Quotes | As individuals and as a nation,...

As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves. - Daniel J. Boorstin
Attribution: Daniel J. Boorstin (b. 1914), U.S. historian. The Image, ch. 6 (1961).

Categories: Historian, Narcissism

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