“Give the public the 'image' of what it thinks it ought to be, or what television commercials or glossy magazine ads have convinced us we ought to be, and we will buy more of the product, become closer to the image, and further from reality.” ThinkingGivingRealityTelevisionProductsOughtConvincedMagazinesAdsConsumerismOverconsumptionTelevision Commercials Book:A Circle of Quiet Source: A Circle of Quiet
“This country lacks the backbone and the spine and the will to demand fair trade and stand up for our products. If our producers can't compete, shame on us. Then we lose. But requiring our producers to compete when the game is rigged, saying our producers ought to compete, when foreign markets are closed to us, is fundamentally wrong.” IfsCountryGamesLosesProductsOughtDemandFairsShameTradeProducersSpineBackboneRiggedFair Trade Author:Byron Dorgan
“I just want to open up the avenues for people to express themselves. That's what the media ought to be. It shouldn't just be a conveyer belt of shiny products to buy. It should be a way that we're all communicating and understanding each other.” PeopleWayWantShouldUnderstandingMediaProductsOughtCommunicateBeltsAvenuesUnderstanding Each Other Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt
“There is a lot of interesting product coming to market already. Bags and bottles and cups and such made of potato starch and other fully biodegradable materials. In some sense, plastic is more chemically complex. We ought to be able to simplify.” MadeAbleInterestingMaterialsProductsOughtComplexesCupsBagsBottlesPlasticPotatoesSimplifyBiodegradable Author:Edward Norton
“My concerns through the years increased about the concerns of an independent judiciary and how we maintain it. Certainly in the states. I'm a product of state government in my own state of Arizona. And it seemed to me that the popular election of judges was creating major problems in many states, and we had improved the system in Arizona. And I thought the nation ought to at least rethink how we select our nation's trial judges in the states.” YearsStatesProblemGovernmentNationsMy OwnJudgingProductsOughtCreatingMajorsConcernIndependentElectionTrialsSelectArizonaState GovernmentJudiciaryThrough The YearsMajor ProblemsIndependent Judiciary Author:Sandra Day O'Connor