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It is important to bear in mind that political campaigns are designed by the same people who sell to...

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If you’ve ever taken an economics course you know that markets are supposed to be based on informed ...

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Noam ChomskyRequiem for the American Dream: The 10 Principles of Concentration of Wealth & Power

In fact quite generally, commercial advertising is fundamentally an effort to undermine markets. We ...

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Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.

Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural ...

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Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.

Promise large promise is the soul of an advertisement.

Marketing used to be about advertising, and advertising is expensive. Today, marketing is about enga...

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Seth GodinTribes: We Need You to Lead Us

Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

Advertising - A judicious mixture of flattery and threats.

Advertisements contain the only truth to be relied on in a newspaper.

Publishing is a very mysterious business. It is hard to predict what kind of sale or reception a boo...

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Advertising is, of course, important because advertise is the final design. It's the last layer that...

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It is not unprofessional to give free legal advice, but advertising that the first visit will be fre...

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Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising a...

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If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising ...

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Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't ...

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The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two ...

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The heart is a muscle. You 'know' in your limbic system. The seat of instinct. The mammalian brain. ...

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The art of advertisement, after the American manner, has introduced into all our life such a lavish ...

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Whatever modern democracies may tell themselves about their commitment to free speech and to diversi...

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Alain de BottonReligion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion

The advertisement is one of the most interesting and difficult of modern literary forms.

The whole people contracts the habits and tastes of the magistrate.

The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.

The future of advertising is the Internet.

By the way, if anyone here is in advertising or marketing, kill yourself.

Nowadays, ads don't just sell a product. They sell an attitude! Look at this one! Here's a cool guy ...

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Bill WattersonThere's Treasure Everywhere: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection

There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.

It's in our biology to trust what we see with our eyes. This makes living in a carefully edited, ove...

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When governments rely increasingly on sophisticated public relations agencies, public debate disappe...

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Advertising teaches people not to trust their judgment. Advertising teaches people to be stupid.

Nature is a strong brand name. Everybody knew that. First thing, Nomenclature 101. Slap Natural on t...

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The deeper problems connected with advertising come less from the unscrupulousness of our 'deceivers...

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The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century...

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It did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase.

They've given Harry the attributes of pistachio nuts and crack cocaine without the health risks (ope...

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David Mitchell (author)Thinking About It Only Makes It Worse: And Other Lessons from Modern Life

I don't know the rules of grammar. If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or buy somet...

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The relationship between a manufacturer and his advertising agency is almost as intimate as the rela...

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The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.

Remove advertising, disable a person or firm from proclaiming its wares and their merits, and the wh...

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I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information.

If it doesn't sell it isn't creative.

The consumer is not a moron. She's your wife.

Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them.

Any fool can write a bad advertisement, but it takes a genius to keep his hands off a good one.

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David OgilvyOgilvy on Advertising

Sound an alarm! Advertising, not deals, builds brands.

...isn't it possible that advertising as a whole is a fantastic fraud, presenting an image of Americ...

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David RiesmanThe Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without ad...

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Censorship is advertising paid by the government.

If I were starting life over again I am inclined to think that I would go into the advertising busi...

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An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.

Advertising is 85% confusion and 15% commission.

The advertising world had space men in it before spacemen existed.

The schedules are crammed with shows urging us to travel further, drive faster, build bigger, buy mo...

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Page after page, advert after advert. Lipsticks, undies, tinned food, patent medicines, slimming cur...

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George OrwellKeep the Aspidistra Flying

All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect c...

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You alone in Europe are not ancient oh ChristianityThe most modern European is you Pope Pius XAnd yo...

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Do you know what the difference is between PR and advertising? Advertising is when you say how great...

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After the collapse of socialism, capitalism remained without a rival. This unusual situation unleash...

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As these contrasts show, capitalism has undergone enormous changes in the last two and a half centur...

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The advertisements in a newspaper are more full of knowledge in respect to what is going on in a sta...

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It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Adv...

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I believe that life is hard. That we all are going to walk through things that are hard and challeng...

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This false distance is present everywhere: in spy films, in Godard, in modern advertising, which use...

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Jean BaudrillardThe Consumer Society: Myths and Structures

The word love has been so abused by publicity and advertisements that we no longer know really what ...

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Sad to say, negative advertising really works.

As long as the attitude is to only show the sheet metal, then automobile advertising will continue t...

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Let's face it: in advertising, you are paid more, but you die younger. It's not very forgiving. Like...

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The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themsel...

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The media network has its idols, but its principal idol is its own style which generates an aura of ...

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If a newspaper is to be of real service to the public, it must have a big circulation: first, becaus...

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All of us somehow felt that the next battleground was going to be culture. We all felt somehow that ...

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In the Soviet Union you weren’t allowed to speak out against the government. In the US you cannot sp...

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Kalle LasnCulture Jam: How To Reverse America's Suicidal Consumer Binge - And Why We Must

Do an overwhelming number of respected scientists believe that human actions are changing the Earth'...

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Kalle LasnCulture Jam: How To Reverse America's Suicidal Consumer Binge - And Why We Must

If you're running an engineering or finance company, all companies depend on ideas and ingenuity. I ...

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The art of publicity is a black art.

Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and...

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The work of an advertising agency is warmly and immediately human. It deals with human needs, wants,...

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I came in as an engineer and worked on artificial intelligence at Google. I worked on related sites ...

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Once a culture becomes entirely advertising friendly, it seizes to be a culture at all.

Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.

Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.

Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.

You certainly remember this scene from dozens of films: a boy and a girl are running hand in hand in...

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Milan KunderaThe Book of Laughter and Forgetting

The only prejudice I've found anywhere in TV is in some advertising agencies, and there isn't so muc...

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The television commercial has mounted the most serious assault on capitalist ideology since the publ...

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Neil PostmanAmusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

The point is that television does not reveal who the best man is. In fact, television makes impossib...

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Neil PostmanAmusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business