Quote from Walter Lippmann

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The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.

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

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Our mental environment is a common-property resource like the air or the water. We need to protect ourselves from unwanted incursions into it, much the same way we lobbied for nonsmoking areas ten years ago.

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If nonsatiety were the natural state of human nature then aggressive want-stimulating advertising would not be necessary, nor would the barrage of novelty aimed at promoting dissatisfaction with last year's model. The system attempts to remake people to fit its own presuppositions. If people's wants are not naturally insatiable we must make them so, in order to keep the system going.

—Herman Daly
From any cross-section of ads, the general advertiser's attitude would seem to be: if you are a lousy, smelly, idle, underpriveleged and oversexed status-seeking neurotic moron, give me your money.

—Kenneth Bromfield (1962)
It is our job to make women unhappy with what they have.

—B Earl Puckett
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

—Stephen Leacock
After the collapse of socialism, capitalism remained without a rival. This unusual situation unleashed its greedy and - above all - its suicidal power. The belief is now that everything - and everyone - is fair game.

—Gunter Grass (1999)
Advertisers in general bear a large part of the responsibility for the deep feelings of inadequacy that drive women to psychiatrists, pills, or the bottle.

—Marya Mannes (1964)
Advertisers constantly invent cures to which there is no disease.

—Anonymous
He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue.

—Andrew Lang
We think a National Day of Prayer is unconstitutional. What if the president declared a National Day of Cursing God because He failed us on September 11th? ... That's how we feel when [they] promote prayer.

—Dan Barker
This is the fundamental debate in our society: Are we a nation of citizens or a nation of consumers? Are we a democracy run by citizens, or are we a corporatocracy that holds consumers locked in dependency by virtue of their consumption?

—Thom Hartmann
Every dollar you spend is a vote for what you value in life.

—Anonymous
Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

—Voltaire (Francois-Marie Arouet)
Business succeeds rather better than the state in imposing its restraints upon individuals, because its imperatives are disguised as choices.

—Walton Hamilton
The marketing enterprise has now come full circle. The time has come to unsell the product and use the incredible power of marketing against itself.

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Only when the last tree has died, the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will we realize that we cannot eat money.

—Cree Proverb
No political challenge can be met by shopping.

—George Monbiot
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.

—Helen Keller

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