#advertising

These films however, have ambiguity built into them, because it's too easy in film to make a strident work of propaganda or advertising, which are really the same thing anyway, meaning the message is unmistakable. ↗

— Godfrey Reggio

#ambiguity #anyway #because #built #easy

Advertising is totally unnecessary. Unless you hope to make money. ↗

— Jef I. Richards

#hope #make #money #totally #unless

Advertising degrades the people it appeals to; it deprives them of their will to choose. ↗

— Carrie P. Snow

#appeals #choose #degrades #deprives #people

Two common conceptions with regard to advertising which are held by a considerable number of people are that enormously large sums of money are expended for it, and that much of this expenditure is an economic waste. ↗

— Daniel Starch

#common #conceptions #considerable #considerable number #economic

What becomes of a man who acquires a beautiful woman, with her "beauty" his sole target? He sabotages himself. He has gained no friend, no ally, no mutual trust: She knows quite well why she has been chosen. He has succeeded in buying something: the esteem of other men who find such an acquisition impressive. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#beauty #body-image #cosmetic-surgery #cosmetics #culture

There is no such thing as a Mass Mind. The Mass Audience is made up of individuals, and good advertising is written always from one person to another. When it is aimed at millions it rarely moves anyone. ↗

— Fairfax Cone

#aimed #always #another #anyone #audience

Most criticism of advertising is written in ignorance of what actually happens inside these agencies. ↗

— Michael Schudson

#advertising #agencies #criticism #happens #ignorance

Advertising is the genie which is transforming America into a place of comfort, luxury and ease for millions. ↗

— William Allen White

#america #comfort #ease #genie #into

I should go into advertising or public relations because if there is someone or something I like, I will promote it like it’s the cure for whatever ailment is in your life. If I love you, I want you to love what I love. Consider yourself smitten or else, suffer hearing me talk about it nonstop…until you also love it. ↗

— Katie Kiesler

#love #making-decisions #public-relations #age

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. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#hypocrisy #irony #philanthropy #money