289 quotes found
“Literacy makes man a victim of advertising. Education makes him a victim of employment.”
“The point is that television does not reveal who the best man is. In fact, television makes impossible the determination of who is better than whom, if we mean by 'better' such things as more capab...”
“By the way, if anyone here is in advertising or marketing, kill yourself.”
“A newspaper is an oversized book with adverts and an expiry date.”
“Spam is a waste of the receivers time, and, a waste of the senders optimism.”
“The codfish lays ten thousand eggs.The homely hen lays one.Codfish never cackles to tell you what she has done.And so we scorn the codfish,while the humble hen we prize,which only goes to show you ...”
“After the collapse of socialism, capitalism remained without a rival. This unusual situation unleashed its greedy and - above all - its suicidal power. The belief is now that everything - and every...”
“Page after page, advert after advert. Lipsticks, undies, tinned food, patent medicines, slimming cures, face-creams. A sort of cross-section of the money world. A panorama of ignorance, greed, vulg...”
“Advertising expresses a power relationship . . . One person, the advertiser, invades; millions absorb. And to what end? So that people will buy something! A deep, profound and disturbing act by the...”
“You're only as good as your next idea. And if you can't agree on that, then it's time to walk.”
“No conflict no story”
“If you want meaning for your brand or company, dare to embrace conflict”
“If I were asked to name the deadliest subversive force within capitalism--the single greatest source of its waning morality--I should without hesitation name advertising. How else should one identi...”
“In a culture that is becoming ever more story-stupid, in which a representative of the Coca-Cola company can, with a straight face, pronounce, as he donates a collection of archival Coca-Cola comme...”
“If you accept the existence of advertising, you accept a system designed to persuade and to dominate minds by interfering in people's thinking patterns. You also accept that the system will be used...”
“Control is an advertising concept.”
“One the one hand, our economists treat human beings as rational actors making choices to maximize their own economic benefit. On the other hand, the same companies that hire those economists also p...”
“In the Soviet Union you werent allowed to speak out against the government. In the US you cannot speak out against sponsors.”
“It is really not so repulsive to see the poor asking for money as to see the rich asking for more money. And advertisement is the rich asking for more money.”
“Nowadays, ads don't just sell a product. They sell an attitude! Look at this one! Here's a cool guy saying nobody tells him what to do. He does whatever he wants and he buys this product as a refle...”
