Quotes for All
In 1938, I. G. Farben sent a letter to (a major drug firm), one of its American subsidiaries, (that)..all advertising contracts must contain ‘…a legal clause whereby the contract is immediately cancelled if overnight the attitude of the paper toward Germany should be changed. G. Edward Griffin
Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap. Ezra Pound
I’ve always been scared of advertising folk. I’ve met them at parties and I’ve been to their offices and I’ve always found them intimidatingly cool. At one company I visited, they held their meetings in a caravan that had somehow been installed in the place, a rather more exotic place to gather than the typical … Read more
Breakthrough Advertising is not about building better mousetraps. It is, however, about building larger mice – and then building a terrifying fear of them in your customers. Eugene Schwartz
American culture is probably the least Christian culture that we’ve ever had because it is so materialistic and it’s so full of lies. The whole advertising world is just, it’s just intertwined with lies, appealing to the worst of the instincts we have. Eugene H. Peterson
I’ve been involved in doing advertising for various elections and I just couldn’t see doing anti-Trump advertising in this election. My line has been, How could you do anything worse that what he does himself?. Errol Morris
I gave someone a perverse argument not so long ago about why advertising is better than movies. You want to hear it? Movies operate from a really disingenuous premise, that people are heroes. I know a lot of people and have had an opportunity over the years to observe them. Are they heroes…? Let’s put … Read more
Fifteen Minutes of Notoriety Beats the Best Advertising Money Can Buy Ernie J Zelinski
Modern man is assailed on every side and almost without interruption by noise – of the radio, of television, of headlines, of advertising and of the cinema – of which the greatest part, far from enlightening the mind, blunts and stultifies it. Erich Fromm
Like the effect of advertising upon the customer, the methods of political propaganda tend to increase the feeling of insignificance of the individual voter. Erich Fromm