Advertising Quote by Northrop Frye Download Open image “Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.” — Northrop Frye ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Advertising Flattery Marketing
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
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
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
The deeper problems connected with advertising come less from the unscrupulousness of our 'deceivers' than from our pleasure in being deceived, less from the… — Marston Bates Copy Share Image
advertising confuses values ... By appealing either to fear, or to vanity, or to covetousness, it very skillfully insinuates false values. — Ann Bridge Copy Share Image
The most that can be said of flattery is that it is sometimes a cheap psychological trick with which charlatans and dishonest people lull… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
I soon realized that a student of English literature who does not know the Bible does not understand a good deal of what is… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Our country has shown a lack of will to resist its own disintegration .. . Canada is practically the only country left in the… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
“The only thing that words can do with any real precision or accuracy is hang together. Accuracy of description in language is not possible… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
The bedrock of doubt is the total nothingness of death. Death is a leveler, not because everybody dies, but because nobody understands what death… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Physics is an organized body of knowledge about nature, and a student of it says that he is learning physics, not nature. Art, like… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Literature as a whole is not an aggregate of exhibits with red and blue ribbons attached to them, like a cat-show, but the range… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
One doesn't bother to believe the credible: the credible is believed already, by definition. There's no adventure of the mind. — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
“Tendintele autoritate ale conservatorismului trebuie corectate prin mituri ale libertatii, in vreme ce un simt conservator al ordinii trebuie sa tempereze tendintele liberalismului spre… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Literature is a human apocalypse, man's revelation to man, and criticism is not a body of adjudications, but the awareness of that revelation, the… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
“The particular myth that's been organizing this talk, and in a way the whole series, is the story of the Tower of Babel in… — Northrop Frye 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
