Advertising proverbs
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- David Foster Wallace99◆ Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.
- Naomi Wolf99◆ To live in a culture in which women are routinely naked where men aren't is to learn inequality in little ways all day long. So even if we agree that sexual imagery is in fact a language, it is clearly one that is already heavily edited to protect men's sexual--and hence social--confidence while undermining that of women.
- Naomi Wolf99◆ Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing but nobody else does.
- Steuart Henderson Britt99◆ The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behaviour and not appearance.
- Naomi Wolf99◆ The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.
- David Ogilvy99◆ Why should her lover, just because he is male, be in a position to judge her against other women? Why must she need to know her position and hate needing to, and hate knowing? Why should his reply have such exaggerated power? And it does. He does not know that what he says will affect the way she feels when they next make love. She is angry for a number of good reasons that may have nothing to do with this particular man's intentions. The exchange reminds her that, in spite of a whole fabric of carefully woven equalities, they are not equal in this way that is so crucial that its snagged thread unravels the rest.
- Naomi Wolf99◆ In a culture that is becoming ever more story-stupid, in which a representative of the Coca-Cola company can, with a straight face, pronounce, as he donates a collection of archival Coca-Cola commercials to the Library of Congress, that 'Coca-Cola has become an integral part of people's lives by helping to tell these stories,' it is perhaps not surprising that people have trouble teaching and receiving a novel as complex and flawed as Huck Finn, but it is even more urgent that we learn to look passionately and technically at stories, if only to protect ourselves from the false and manipulative ones being circulated among us.
- George Saunders99◆ Is the beauty myth good to men? It hurts them by teaching them how to avoid loving women. It prevents men from actually seeing women. It does not, contrary to its own professed ideology, stimulate and gratify sexual longing. In suggesting a vision in place of a woman, it has a numbing effect, reducing all senses but the visual, and impairing even that.
- Naomi Wolf99◆ All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.
- George Orwell99◆ Advertising - A judicious mixture of flattery and threats.
- Stephen Leacock99◆ The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife.
- David Ogilvy99◆ Advertising rises to an art when it stimulates not a perceived need, but boredom. Generosity sweepstakes, patient repetition, diligent associations, claims of skyrocketing temperance – a cavalry charge of techniques weaseling the tedious virtues into subliminal consciousness to make people fidget in their jiggling bodies, necrohabits, and abusive relationships. This campaign of discontent would implant not a longing for this or that product, but a heartache to jump on the bandwagon of another existence altogether. To lodge ennui in the soul is to commodify life.
- Bauvard99◆ Marketing is what you do when your product is no good.
- Edwin H. Land99◆ I don't know the rules of grammar. If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language.
- David Ogilvy99
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