162 Quotes About Advertisement


  • Author Mary Doria Russell
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    The new fashions sold in departmentstores had thrown skilled American seamstresses out of work, you see.They’d been displaced by immigrant girls doing piecework for a pittancein terrible sweatshops. I refused to patronize a garment industrythat exploited its desperately poor workers so heartlessly.And if that wasn’t enough to keep me out of stores, there was this aswell: I was determined to resist that shameless sister of war propaganda—the advertising industry.

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  • Author Louis-Ferdinand Céline
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    Buy Fable! the book that rejuvenates your soul! makes your belly belly-laugh! turns your cares to dust!...likewise your moods, woes an wounds!...turns everything rosy, deflates spleen and bile! pocondria! not just any old work! not just any old words! Fable!You gotta be categorical.

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  • Author Michel Tournier
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    -Reklamcılık, servet yapmanın en zarif ve en hızlı yollarından biri galiba. Satılacak ürünü, mutluluğun, güzelliğin, gençliğin, erotizmin, tatilin girdiği cennetsi bir yaşamla bütünleyerek kitleleri kendine çekmek... Baştan çıkarmak!- O, Lucie ya da Gölgesiz Kadın

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  • Author Gerald Scarfe
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    I hated [the commercial art studio] because advertising is telling lies, basically, making crap goods look terrific, and I felt I was so privileged to be an artist anyway, why was I prostituting myself on doing this sort of rubbish? So when I left there, I suppose after about five or six years, I then went to the other extreme and started telling to me what seemed to me at the time the ultra-truth about the world around me - social life, and the politicians, and so forth.

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  • Author Jean Gadrey
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    Le montant des dépenses mondiales de publicité et de sponsoring approchait 600 milliards de dollars en 2008, soit quatre à cinq fois ce que permettrait de régler, sur le plan financier, les problèmes les plus urgents des pays en développement (les « objectifs du millénaire » des Nations Unies). (p.70)

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