289 quotes found
“Posthuman. It was a word from advertising copy, breathless and empty, and all hed ever thought it really meant was that the people using it had a limited imagination about what exactly humans were ...”
“Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing but nobody else does.”
“All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.”
“A businessman who stops advertising to save money is like a foolish who stops a clock to save time.”
“Philosopher Jean Baudrillard made a similar observation about the use of material goods as symbols of immaterial values. He noted that any given material object has two kinds of value: it has use v...”
“The heart is a muscle. You 'know' in your limbic system. The seat of instinct. The mammalian brain. Deeper, wider, beyond logic. That is where advertising works, not in the upstart cortex. What we ...”
“Don't fight to be right, but fight when you are right.”
“Starting a business with brother either ends business or ends brotherhood.”
“Life tests us to see our level of endurance.”
“The last thing the consumer index wants men and women to do is to figure out how to love one another: The $1.5 trillion retail-sales industry depends on sexual estrangement between men and women, a...”
“In spite of hopes to the contrary, pornography and mass culture are working to collapse sexuality with rape, reinforcing the patterns of male dominance and female submission so that many young peop...”
“I don't know the rules of grammar. If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language.”
“Advertising - A judicious mixture of flattery and threats.”
“You alone in Europe are not ancient oh ChristianityThe most modern European is you Pope Pius XAnd you whom the windows observe shame keeps youFrom entering a church and confessing this morningYou r...”
“Advertising and marketing philosophies that thrive on emphasizing 'natural' differences don't stay in the realm of advertising and marketing--they spill into how we justify sexism and racism at eve...”
“Marketing is what you do when your product is no good.”
“Health makes good propaganda.”
“...isn't it possible that advertising as a whole is a fantastic fraud, presenting an image of America taken seriously by no one, least of all the advertising men who create it? ”
“The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.”
“The media network has its idols, but its principal idol is its own style which generates an aura of winning and leaves the rest in darkness. It recognizes neither pity nor pitilessness.”
