- « You can fool all of the people some of the time and you can fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time »
Abraham Lincoln, 1856
- « You use it once and throw it away »
slogan in ‘Brave New World’ by Aldous Huxley, 1932
- « Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months »
Oscar Wilde, quoted in Vance Packard’s ‘The Wastemakers’ , 1957
- « Commercial speech - advertising – makes up most of what we share as a culture. No one is happy about this, not even the the people who make it. (…) And it’s not going away »
J.B. Twitchell, Professor of Literature, University of Florida, 2000
- « S’étonnera-t-on que ce soit surtout la publicité qui ait compris que l’image est aussi un objet, et un objet de désir ? » (Will it surprise to note that it took advertising to understand that the image is both an object as such and an object of desire ?) Christian Zimmer ‘Le Regard sans objet’, in Esprit 02/1994, 81
- « We do not see the world as it is, but as WE are »
Anaïs Nin
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