289 quotes found
“Sexual satisfaction eases the stranglehold of materialism, since status symbols no longer look sexual, but irrelevant. Product lust weakens where emotional and sexual lust intensifies. The price we...”
“Spokespeople sell women the Iron Maiden and name her "Health": if public discourse were really concerned with women's health, it would turn angrily upon this aspect of the beauty myth.”
“Modern cosmetic surgeons have a direct financial interest in a social role for women that requires them to feel ugly. They do not simply advertise for a share of a market that already exists: Their...”
“The word love has been so abused by publicity and advertisements that we no longer know really what it means.”
“If someone tells you that they’re called “blueberries” because they’re berries and they’re blue—believe them.”
“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...”
“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...”
“Health makes good propaganda.”
“It's in our biology to trust what we see with our eyes. This makes living in a carefully edited, overproduced and photoshopped world very dangerous.”
“Don’t spend your time or money on being boring.”
“Social media takes time and careful, strategic thought. It doesn’t happen by accident.”
“The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.”
“I always hear parents talking about how outraged they are because their kid saw a boob or something like that on TV. I never hear anyone say that they're outraged because a cartoon character in a c...”
“Spam is a waste of the receivers’ time, and, a waste of the sender’s optimism.”
“No conflict no story”
“If you want meaning for your brand or company, dare to embrace conflict”
“He loved his job. What was advertising, anyway, but a knowledge of people and of which buttons to push to nudge them into opening their wallets?It was, he often though, an accepted, creative, even ...”
“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...”
“Control is an advertising concept.”
“In the Soviet Union you weren’t allowed to speak out against the government. In the US you cannot speak out against sponsors.”
