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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.

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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.

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It is our job to make women unhappy with what they have.

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

—Stephen Leacock
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.

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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.

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Advertisers constantly invent cures to which there is no disease.

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Advertising is a racket...its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

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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
Don't tell my mother I work in an advertising agency - she thinks I play piano in a whorehouse.

—Jacques Seguela
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.

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Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need.

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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.

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

—Thomas Jefferson
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.

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The inherent contradiction of human life has now reached an extreme degree of tension: on the one side there is the consciousness of the beneficence of the law of love, and on the other the existing order of life which has for centuries occasioned an empty, anxious, restless, and troubled mode of life, conflicting as it does with the law of love and built on the use of violence. This contradiction must be faced, and the solution will evidently not be favourable to the outlived law of violence, but to the truth which has dwelt in the hearts of men from remote antiquity: the truth that the law of love is in accord with the nature of man. But men can only recognize this truth to its full extent when they have completely freed themselves from all religious and scientific superstitions and from all the consequent misrepresentations and sophistical distortions by which its recognition has been hindered for centuries.

—Leo Tolstoy (1908)

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