advertising on Liturgy

The influence of the familiar on our lives is something that advertisers never forget. The point of advertising is to capitalize on real needs or to create needs and then to provide a product to fill ...

Brands are the new religion.

Why a story? We all think of our lives as stories, each with a main character (us) theme, and plot (interesteing so far, but as yet unfinished). We also love to hear stories about others and even abou...

I once heard a sermon that compared believers to commercials for God. “And God doesn’t need any bad commercials,” I remember the preacher saying. It stuck with me, and from then on I often made decisi...

Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.

Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

It's in our biology to trust what we see with our eyes. This makes living in a carefully edited, overproduced and photoshopped world very dangerous.

The incessant witless repetition of advertisers' moron-fodder has become so much a part of life that, if we are not careful, we forget to be insulted by it.

The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society const...

...You are excused from doing the work of constructing the fantasy. The ads do it for you. The ads, therefore, don’t flatter your adult agency, or even ignore it—they supplant it.

Advertising is literally an attempt to monetize our restlessness.

Advertising - A judicious mixture of flattery and threats.

“Of course, there is some truth in advertising. There's yeast in bread, but you can't make bread with yeast alone. Truth in advertising,” announced Lord Peter sententiously, “is like leaven, w...

We must shift America from a needs to a desires culture…. People must be trained to desire, to want new things, even before the old have been entirely consumed. We must shape a new mentality. Man’s de...

What you say in advertising is more important than how you say it.

Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century.

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.

We are surrounded by hundreds, thousands of messages every day that link our deepest emotions to products that objectify people and trivialize our most heartfelt moments and relationships. Every emoti...

“It did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase.”

Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding.

Original Sin has great marketing potential.

Princess Buttercup: “You mock my pain. Man in Black: Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.”

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.

We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.

Advertisements in a newspaper are more full of knowledge in respect to what is going on in a community than the editorial columns are.

Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

When an online service is free, you're not the customer. You're the product.

It is important to bear in mind that political campaigns are designed by the same people who sell toothpaste and cars.

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.