Advertising Quote by John Lahr Download Open image “Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.” — John Lahr ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Advertising Crazy Crazy Lust Drives People Lust Marketing People People Crazy Society Drives
Advertising reaches out to touch the fantasy part of people's lives. And you know, most people's fantasies are pretty sad. — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
Advertising tries to stimulate our sensuous desires, converting luxuries into necessities, but it only intensifies man's inner misery. The business world is bent on… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Advertising ... is a parasitic activity; it forces goods for which there is no real need or demand on a foolish or even a… — Ann Bridge Copy Share Image
“Advertising is profoundly manipulative at its core. Its imagery strives to deprive us of realistic ideas about love, sex, beauty, health, money, work, and… — Jennifer L. Pozner Copy Share Image
Advertising is about norms and values, aspirations and prejudices. It is about culture. — Anil Ambani Copy Share Image
The interesting thing about advertising is that the things that annoy us sometimes about it are really human. It's us looking at ourselves -… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
If advertising encourages people to live beyond their means, so does matrimony. — Bruce Barton Copy Share Image
We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Advertising is far from impotent or harmless; it is not a mere mirror image. Its power is real, and on the brink of a… — Eric Clark Copy Share Image
Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
What I find most injurious to mankind in modern advertising is the constant appeal to material standards and values, the elevating of material things… — Ann Bridge Copy Share Image
Advertising didn't mix sex up with our daily lives. The great Marketeer in the sky did that. — Barry Brooks Copy Share Image
The British playwright Nina Raine is one of her generation's most promising talents. — John Lahr Copy Share Image
Broadway shows in New York draw two times the attendance of all New York sports teams put together. — John Lahr Copy Share Image
The pigeons are shitting on George M. Cohan. I shoo them off. They fly up and perch on his hat. Cohan would've never given… — John Lahr Copy Share Image
I go to the theatre expecting to have a good time. I want each play and performance to take me somewhere. Naturally, this doesn't… — John Lahr Copy Share Image
Dame Edna is that rarest sighting in our time of the absolute comic, an inspired personification of caprice whose comedy answered the primal call… — John Lahr Copy Share Image
We were postwar middle-class white kids living in the slipstream of the greatest per-capita rise in income in the history of Western civilization; we… — John Lahr Copy Share Image
Momentum was part of the exhilaration and the exhaustion of the twentieth century which Coward decoded for the British but borrowed wholesale from the… — John Lahr Copy Share Image
Death of a Salesman' is a brilliant taxonomy of the spiritual atrophy of mid-twentieth-century white America. — John Lahr Copy Share Image
I detest literature. I abominate the theatre. I have a horror of culture. I am only interested in magic! — John Lahr Copy Share Image
In 1957, 'West Side Story' had introduced the musical to the reckless dark side of teen-age life; 'Bye Bye Birdie,' set in Sweet Apple,… — John Lahr Copy Share Image
The New Yorker's' drama critics have always had a comparable authority because, for the most part, the magazine made it a practice to employ… — John Lahr Copy Share Image
I saw this anti-drug commercial that showed a kid smoking pot in his dad's room with his friend. This kid finds a gun, the… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“Salesmanship is usually the art of making it the prospect’s problem, the salesperson’s need or desire to earn money.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Advertising justifies its existence when used in the public interest-it is much too powerful a tool to use solely for commercial purposes. — Howard Gossage Copy Share Image
We have the capital, the resources, and the technology that we need to build a mobile advertising platform across the planet. — Naveen Tewari Copy Share Image
“Never run advertising until the major publicity possibilities have been exploited.” — Al Ries Copy Share Image
God never talks. But the devil keeps advertising, Father. The devil does a lot of commercials. — William Peter Blatty Copy Share Image
I like Valentine's Day. The trouble is the florists and the candy-makers and the card people are all advertising so much, you don't dare… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
I happened to be spotted by a modeling agent who offered me a part-time job at 16. Everything happened very quickly after that -… — Dia Mirza Copy Share Image
They say that Madison Avenue will only pay high dollars in advertising if they get the 18-35 age range. — Sharon Gless Copy Share Image
“There's not a branch of publishing or broadcasting that doesn't depend in some way on advertising. It'd be like an aquarium without water. Why,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I've driven people mad on films that I've made - I want more takes; I want to try new lines. Then I want to… — Hugh Grant Copy Share Image
