“Advertisers like that because they want you to feel their product isn't normal - this perfume isn't normal, this set of lingerie isn't normal. The irony is that they are appealing to normal people to buy the product because they want them to identify with an exotic life that they don't lead.” PeopleWantFeelsProductsNormalAdvertisingIronyPerfumeExoticAdvertisersLingerie Author:Cary Cooper
“One of the problems is that the notion of cancer has been so normalized. You hear about it so often, and it's not ok... it's not ok to normalize this disease. And with all of the pinkwashing that goes on where companies are selling products based on breast cancer month it's a lovely gesture, but consumers get so used to it that it becomes more normal.” Has BeensProblemUsedCompanyProductsMonthsGoes OnDiseaseNormalNotionCancerLovelySellingConsumersBreastsGesturesBreast CancerSelling Products Author:Jennifer Beals
“I surrender it to God, knowing that the pain itself is a product or a reflection of how I am interpreting whatever it is that is causing me pain. Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for. I honor my grief. I try to be kinder to myself. I give myself time to move through and to process whatever is making me sad.” GivingTryingHumansPainMovingProcessRoomsGriefExistenceKnowingProductsHonorNormalReflectionSurrenderGod KnowsHuman ExistenceKinderInterpreting Author:Marianne Williamson
“People can buy the kind of things they consider as normal and take for granted because of globalization and trade and use of supply chains and the reduction of the cost base of the manufacturing of some products.” PeopleKindUseProductsCostNormalTradeChainsGrantedGlobalizationManufacturingReductionSupply Chain Author:Christine Lagarde
“Advertising is not intended to brainwash you and make you go out and buy something; that's a real simple-minded way of criticizing it. I think advertising is just designed to make you familiar with this thing, so when you go to the store... Humans like to choose things that are familiar to them; it's just normal human behavior. So I think that when you go to the store, if your brain has been hit enough times with a certain product name, you're more likely, when you're thinking, "Which tennis shoe should I buy?," to say, "Ummm... Nike."” IfsThinkingWayShouldHumansHas BeensRealEnoughCertainNamesSimpleBrainProductsBehaviorNormalShoesStoresFamiliarAdvertisingTennisCriticizeShould IHuman BehaviorEnough TimeNikeBrainwashTennis Shoes Author:Mark Hosler
“All they need to do is to set up some website somewhere selling some bogus product at twenty percent of the normal market prices and people are going to be tricked into providing their credit card numbers.” PeopleNeedsNumbersProductsNormalPercentTwentiesCreditSellingCardsProvidingWebsiteCredit Card Author:Kevin Mitnick
“So it is always preferable to discuss the matter of veganism in a non-judgemental way. Remember that to most people, eating flesh or dairy and using animal products such as leather, wool, and silk, is as normal as breathing air or drinking water. A person who consumes dairy or uses animal products is not necessarily or usually what a recent and unpopular American president labelled an "evil doer.” PeopleWayPersonsMatterUseRememberEvilEasyPresidentWaterAnimalAirProductsNormalEatingDrinkingClimate ChangeFleshBreathingGlobal WarmingVeganismLeatherSilkDoersDairyDrinking WaterAmerican PresidentWoolJudgementalClassismFrancioneEvil DoersNon Judgemental Author:Gary L. Francione