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“Advertising ... is a parasitic activity; it forces goods for which there is no real need or demand on a foolish or even a reluctant public, always by appealing to their lower instincts.”

Quote by Ann Bridge

Book:Singing Waters

Work

In 'Singing Waters,' the author weaves a tale of a world where the flow of water is imbued with a magical quality, capable of singing melodies that resonate with the soul. This novel takes readers on a journey through a landscape rich in symbolism and emotion, exploring themes of connection, transformation, and the profound impact of nature on the human spirit. more

Author

Ann Bridge (1889-1974) was a British autobiographer known for her works that are characterized by their profound personal experiences and sharp insights into social issues. more

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“advertising confuses values ... By appealing either to fear, or to vanity, or to covetousness, it very skillfully insinuates false values.”

Values Advertising Vanity Covetousness

Author:Ann Bridge

“the essence of vulgarity seemed to lie in the pretence at being or the attempt to be, something that one really was not, with the resulting lack of ease and dignity and taste.”

Lying Taste Dignity Essence Ease Pretense Vulgarity Pretence

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Source: Singing Waters

“Every ceremony or rite has a value if it is performed without alteration. A ceremony is a book in which a great deal is written. Anyone who understands can read it. One rite often contains more than a hundred books.”

Ifs Book Values Deals Written Hundred Ceremony Rite Alterations

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“Americans ... attach such a fantastic importance to their baths and plumbing and gadgets of all sorts. They talk as if people could hardly be human beings without all that; we in Europe are beginning to wonder if people can be human beings with it.”

People Ifs Humans Human Beings Wonder United States Comfort Europe Importance Fantastic Baths Gadgets Plumbing

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Source: Singing Waters

“As soon as you start asking what education is for, what the use of it is, you're abandoning the basic assumption of any true culture, that education is worth while for its own sake.”

Use Culture Education Asking Sake Assumption

Book:Singing Waters

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“there is that wish, in the name of democracy, to level down, because high cultural standards are despised and rejected, and even feared, in our Western Democracies. Don't let anyone else have what I've not got, or can't enjoy! - is the secret theory. A very large number of writers in the British and American popular press profess to be preaching democracy when in fact they are only trying to make envy respectable!”

Trying Facts Names Wish Enjoy Levels Numbers Secret Democracy Theory Standards Presses Western British Envy Preaching Rejected Respectable Despised Large Numbers

Author:Ann Bridge

“America ... holds up its way of life as the ideal for every nation, and seeks to impose its own standards of living - which many people think ridiculously and unwholesomely high - on others, partly of course in the search for markets. If it were openly stated that it was just a search for markets, that would be one thing, but it is not; by a tremendous propaganda campaign this materialistic conception is held up as an ideal, as somehow part of liberty, and above all, as a form of happiness.”

“I do disapprove of the modern attitude that you can't do the simplest thing, like dying or being born, in your own house.”

House Born Attitude Modern Dying Life And Death Simplest

Book:Singing Waters

Source: Singing Waters

“Mountains had taken the place of religion, had satisfied her religious sense, her need for adoration and worship as no service in any Cathedral, however sublime, had been able to do.”

Needs Able Religious Taken Mountain Worship Satisfied Sublime Adoration Cathedrals

Author:Ann Bridge

“The full life depends, not on the range of experience but on the intensity of the interest, the emotion involved, and on its being a personal interest.”

Passion Interest Emotion Depends Involved Range Intensity Full Life Personal Interest

Book:Singing Waters

Source: Singing Waters