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Advertising is legalized lying. ↗


— H. G. Wells


#advertising #legalized #lying

If we listen human instinct actually tells us what we need, but advertising makes us want things we don't need and things we can't have. ↗


— Kit Williams


#advertising #human #instinct #listen #makes

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 capable in negotiation, more imaginative in executive skill, more knowledgeable about international affairs, more understanding of the interrelations of economic systems, and so on. The reason has, almost entirely, to do with 'image.' But not because politicians are preoccupied with presenting themselves in the best possible light. After all, who isn't? It is a rare and deeply disturbed person who does not wish to project a favorable image. But television gives image a bad name. For on television the politician does not so much offer the audience an image of himself, as offer himself as an image of the audience. And therein lies one of the most powerful influences of the television commercial on political discourse. ↗


— Neil Postman


#campaigns #debate #democracy #discourse #elections

Women are mere "beauties" in men's culture so that culture can be kept male. When women in culture show character, they are not desirable, as opposed to the desirable. A beautiful heroine is a contradiction in terms, since heroism is about individuality, interesting and ever changing, while "beauty" is generic, boring, and inert. While culture works out moral dilemmas, "beauty" is amoral: If a woman is born resembling an art object, it is an accident of nature, a fickle consensus of mass perception, a peculiar coincidence--but it is not a moral act. From the "beauties" in male culture, women learn a bitter amoral lesson--that the moral lessons of their culture exclude them. ↗


— Naomi Wolf


#beauty #images #self-esteem #art

Millions of dollars' worth of advertising shows such little respect for the reader's intelligence that it amounts almost to outright insult. ↗


— James Randolph Adams


#almost #dollars #insult #intelligence #little

Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising. ↗


— John Lahr


#calls #crazy #drives #lust #people

The interesting thing about advertising is that the things that annoy us sometimes about it are really human. It's us looking at ourselves - and like all human endeavors it's imperfect. ↗


— Jaron Lanier


#advertising #annoy #endeavors #human #imperfect

News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising. ↗


— Lord Northcliffe


#news #rest #somebody #somewhere #suppress

I always say it took me 10 minutes to write 'Cars,' but if I am honest it could have been even less than that - and it has been a really successful song over the years. It is still massively used, in advertising, in films, and people do cover versions of it a lot. ↗


— Gary Numan


#always #am #been #cars #could

If you want quality service, you have to pay for it. You don't buy into waste. I have great misgivings about the amount of advertising that we see in the health care field, some by hospitals, a lot by drug companies. ↗


— David Obey


#advertising #amount #buy #care #companies






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