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“advertisement ... has brought our disregard for truth into the open without even a figleaf to cover it.”

“The language of salesmanship was no doubt born with the first fashions in fig leaves in the garden of Eden. A strange concept has grown around it: if something is to be sold, inaccuracy is not immoral. Hence the art of advertisement - untruthfulness combined with repetition.”

Ifs Firsts Art Language Born Doubt Fashion Strange Concepts Garden Advertising No Doubt Repetition Immoral Eden Advertisements Garden Of Eden Figs Salesmanship Untruthfulness

Author:Freya Stark

“The consumer today is the victim of the manufacturer who launches on him a regiment of products for which he must make room in his soul.”

Soul Today Rooms Economy Products Victim Advertising Consumers Consumerism

Book:The humanist in the bathtub

Source: The humanist in the bathtub

“Who are the advertising men kidding, besides the European tourist? Between the tired, sad, gentle faces of the subway riders and the grinning Holy Families of the Ad-Mass, there exists no possibility of even a wishful identification.”

Men Faces Possibility Holy Mass Tired Advertising Gentle Ads Tourists Riders Subway Identification Grinning

Book:The humanist in the bathtub

Source: The humanist in the bathtub

“You have to have a very strong cash flow for a film to really stay in theaters. You have to have the advertising capacity to sustain and follow the kind of press coverage.”

Kind Film Strong Capacity Flow Theater Presses Advertising Cash Very Strong Coverage Cash Flow

Author:Haile Gerima

“I want the largest audience I can get, because that's how I can charge the highest advertising rate. Which means what else do I want? Money. I am trying to earn a profit. It's capitalism.”

Want Trying Mean I Can Audience Highest Capitalism Rate Profit Advertising

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“Your face is a billboard advertising your philosophy of life!”

Philosophy Faces Life Philosophy Advertising Your Face Billboards

Book:Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around

Source: Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around

“The advertising agency, as it stands today, is a peculiar manifestation of American business life of the twentieth century - glossy, brash, and insecure.”

Today Century Advertising Manifestation Agency Peculiar Insecure Twentieth Century Advertising Agencies American Business Business Life Brash

Book:Past imperfect

Source: Past imperfect

“All our advertising is propaganda, of course, but it has become so much a part of our life, is so pervasive, that we just don't know what it is propaganda for.”

Knows Life Is Courses Our Lives Advertising Propaganda

Author:Pauline Kael

“Advertising never sold a bad product twice.”

Products Advertising

Author:Dorothy L. Sayers

“Advertise, or go under.”

Advertising

Book:Murder Must Advertise

Source: Murder Must Advertise

“Of course, there is some truth in advertising. There's yeast in bread, but you can't make bread with yeast alone. Truth in advertising is like leaven, which a woman hid in three measures of meal. It provides a suitable quantity of gas, with which to blow out a mass of crude misrepresentation into a form that the public can swallow.”

Form Three Courses Mass Blow Bread Advertising Meals Gas Quantity Suitable Crude Misrepresentation Yeast

Book:Murder Must Advertise

Source: Murder Must Advertise

“In my firm, we dealt in lies. Advertising is that ... the skilful use of the truth to mislead, to spoil, to debase.”

Use Lying Advertising Firm Spoil Mislead

Book:The Journal of Mary Hervey Russell

Source: The Journal of Mary Hervey Russell

“Great advertising is the expression of deep emotional sincerity.”

Emotional Expression Advertising Sincerity Great Advertising Deep Emotional

Book:Company parade

Source: Company parade

“People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.”

“We know of our own knowledge that we are human beings, and, as such, imperfect. But we are bathed by the communications industry in a ceaseless tide of inhuman, impossible perfection.”

Knows Humans Human Beings Impossible Communication Industry Perfection Advertising Imperfect Tides Inhuman

Book:The Folks at Home

Source: The Folks at Home

“I believe that conventional marketing techniques are increasingly ineffective. Customers are hyped out. They have been overmarketed. They are becoming more cynical about the whole advertising and marketing process.”

Believe Has Beens Whole I Believe Process Becoming Marketing Customers Technique Advertising Cynical Conventional Consumerism Becoming More Advertising And Marketing

Author:Anita Roddick

“It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.”

Business Degrees Advertising Swings Initiative Dynamics Motivational Business Business Inspiration Positive Business

Author:Isaac Asimov

“When two kids came along, I couldnt see how I could support them. The way it played out, I was away from the theatre for five years. I was a postie for the first part and then worked as an advertising copywriter, but I somehow found my way back.”

Way Years Firsts Two Kids Found Support Five Theatre Advertising My Way Five Years

Author:Peter Hambleton

“Advertising prods people into wanting more and better things. Of course advertising makes people dissatisfied with what they have - makes them raise their sights. Mighty good thing it does. Nothing could be worse for the United States than 200,000,000 satisfied Americans.”

People Doe States Courses United United States Sight Raises Good Things Satisfied Advertising Consumerism Dissatisfaction Dissatisfied Wanting More

Author:Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

“To be a success in advertising you must want to fill other people with a passion for possession.”

People Want Passion Possession Advertising

Book:Macy's, Gimbels, and Me: How to Earn $90,000 a Year in Retail Advertising

Source: Macy's, Gimbels, and Me: How to Earn $90,000 a Year in Retail Advertising

“It's smart to be thrifty.”

Smart Advertising Thrift Thrifty

Book:Macy's, Gimbels, and Me: How to Earn $90,000 a Year in Retail Advertising

Source: Macy's, Gimbels, and Me: How to Earn $90,000 a Year in Retail Advertising

“You know why Madison Avenue advertising has never done well in Harlem? We're the only ones who know what it means to be Brand X.”

Knows Wells Mean Done Advertising Brands Avenues Harlem Madison Madison Avenue

Book:From the Back of the Bus

Source: From the Back of the Bus

“All one really requires for putting anything over is enough energy and resistance to keep on plugging the idea. Someone will eventually fall.”

Ideas Enough Fall Energy Resistance Advertising Publicity

Author:Elizabeth Hawes

“Abstract art: a construction site for high fashion, for advertising, for furniture.”

Art Fashion Advertising Abstract Construction Site Furniture Abstract Art High Fashion Construction Sites

Book:The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier

Source: The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier

“The advertising media in this country continuously informs the American male of his need for indispensable signs of his virility.”

Needs Country Media Males Advertising Indispensable

Author:Frances M. Beal

“There's no such thing as a war against terrorism. It's idiotic. These are slogans. These are lies. It's advertising, which is the only art form we ever invented and developed.”

Art War Form Lying Terrorism Advertising Slogans Idiotic

Author:Gore Vidal

“"Terrorism" is a metaphor, it's an abstract noun. It's like having a war on dandruff. It's something from advertising, it's meaningless.”

War Metaphor Terrorism Advertising Abstract Meaningless Nouns

Author:Gore Vidal

“Since there is no system of public education, the great majority of my fellow citizens is frighteningly ignorant. They have no idea where Iraq is. They accept as the gospel whatever the government tells them. Good grief, any other normal country would have been against the Iraq war! But we live in an abnormal country, governed by experts in deceptive advertising.”

Has Beens Ideas War Country Government Grief Accepting Citizens Normal Fellows Majority Iraq Ignorant Advertising No Idea Experts Iraq War Abnormal Deceptive Public Education

Author:Gore Vidal

“A lot of people will say, "what's Facebook's business model?" I always find that a kind of funny question. Our business model is out there, which is: we monetize largely through advertising and a little bit through the gift revenue, the virtual gifts we have on our site. I think those continue to be the most promising avenues going forward.”

People Thinking Kind Littles Bits Little Bit Models Advertising Site Revenue Avenues Business Models Funny Question

Author:Sheryl Sandberg

“Just as a salesperson is never extreme or original or overdressed, so the TV retailers never do anything to distract their audiences from the real product, the commercial.”

Real Audience Television Tvs Products Originals Extremes Advertising Salesperson Retailers

Book:Mind Over Media: Essays on Film and Television

Source: Mind Over Media: Essays on Film and Television

“two powerful, opposing forces - one seducing people to eat and the other telling them they are failures if they do - create heartache everywhere.”

People Ifs Two Force Powerful Weight Advertising Heartache Opposing Seducing

Author:Emme

“The creative adult is the child who has survived.”

Children Imagination Creativity Creative Adults Advertising Adulthood Survived Be Creative Creativeness Grown Children

Book:No Time to Spare: Thinking about what Matters

Source: No Time to Spare: Thinking about what Matters

“I have turned down so many major advertising bids because I think either the time isn't right or I'm not.”

Thinking Majors Advertising Turned Down

Author:Linda Evangelista

“Here's what a lot of the media want us to believe: One day, we'll get everything right about our appearance. Our hair will look fabulous, our skin will be smooth and crease-free, men will have perfect six-pack abs and we'll be three sizes smaller than we are now. We'll look so good we'll have made over not just our looks but our lives.”

Men Want Believe Looks Made Three Perfect Our Lives Media Hair One Day Six Skins Size Appearance Advertising Packs Smooth Fabulous Want U Free Man Six Packs

Author:Myrna Blyth

“What I find most injurious to mankind in modern advertising is the constant appeal to material standards and values, the elevating of material things into an end in themselves, a virtue.”

Ends Values Virtue Modern Mankind Materials Standards Constant Advertising Appeals Material Things Elevating Standards And Values

Book:Singing Waters

Source: Singing Waters

“In Europe, a product must be good, or it will not sell in competition with other products; with you, it is enough to say that it is good, often enough and sufficiently loudly. The keenest competition is not in the making of things but in the advertising of them!”

Enough Products Europe Sells Competition Be Good Advertising

Book:Singing Waters

Source: Singing Waters

“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.”

Needs Real Force Activity Demand Instinct Foolish Advertising Goods Reluctant

Book:Singing Waters

Source: Singing Waters

“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 more we think we're not affected by media - stereotypes, advertising - the more potential those forms of media have.”

Thinking Form Media Advertising Affected Stereotype

Author:Jennifer Pozner

“Some people have a taboo about doing advertising in the States. You know, where they kind of make their bread and butter. But to me, that's crazy.”

People Knows Kind States Crazy Bread Advertising Taboo Bread And Butter

Author:Ice Cube

“If we had a truth-in Government act comparable to the truth-in-advertising law, every note issued by the Treasury would be obliged to include a sentence stating: This note will be redeemed with the proceeds from an identical note which will be sold to the public when this one comes due.”

Ifs Government Would Be Law Notes Investing Sentences Dues Advertising Obliged Identical Treasury Redeemed

Author:Walter Wriston

“Fashion is not art. Fashion isnt even culture. Fashion is advertising, and advertising is money. And for every dollar you earn, someone has to pay.”

Art Culture Pay Fashion Dollars Advertising

Author:Gia Carangi

“A lot of the ways of advertising a book - the cover, whether somebody sees it on a subway or sees it in a bookstore - those things are going to rapidly diminish as we move to an electronic model.”

Way Book Moving Models Advertising Diminish Bookstores Subway

Author:Gary Shteyngart

“The more shame, the more clicks. The more clicks, the more advertising dollars.”

Shame Dollars Advertising Clicks

Author:Monica Lewinsky

“The only thing that really annoys me is when all of a sudden you hear yourself on the radio advertising Smith's tyre shop or Blenkinsop's jam. They simply can't do that. And in Australia, occasionally I have to take action.”

Action Radio Advertising Shops Australia Annoying Jam Tyres

Author:Richie Benaud

“If advertising encourages people to live beyond their means, so does matrimony.”

People Ifs Mean Doe Money Advertising Matrimony

Author:Bruce Barton

“We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising.”

Dream Money Grew Promise Grew Up Infinite Advertising Founding Our Dreams Complexion

Book:Save Me the Waltz: A Novel

Source: Save Me the Waltz: A Novel

“I am a bohemian person. I don't speak German, and I live in a foreign country where all the signs are in German. I did that deliberately. I'm like a ghost. Look at how much media and advertising you're subjected to, this mindless chatter of advertising. I just block it out so effortlessly because it's all a foreign language to me. It's really a good thing for my head, living in Berlin.”

Looks Persons Country Speak Language Media Good Things Ghost Block Advertising Berlin Mindless Chatter Foreign Language Foreign Countries Bohemian

Author:Anton Newcombe

“Because of the control of the media by corporate wealth, the discovery of truth depends on an alternative media, such as small radio stations, networks, programs. Also, alternative newspapers, which exist all over the country. Also, cable TV programs, which are not dependent on commercial advertising. Also, the internet, which can reach millions of people by-passing the conventional media.”

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