"Advertising - A judicious mixture of flattery and threats."
- Stephen Leacock
"Marketing is so powerful that it can make even an extremely untalented musician a one-hundred-hits wonder."
- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"In fact quite generally, commercial advertising is fundamentally an effort to undermine markets. We should recognize that. If you’ve taken an economics course, you know that markets are supposed to be..."
- Noam Chomsky
"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for t..."
- Rob Siltanen
"The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do."
"Women who love themselves are threatening; but men who love real women, more so."
- Naomi Wolf
"Sadly, the signals that allow men and women to find the partners who most please them are scrambled by the sexual insecurity initiated by beauty thinking. A woman who is self-conscious can't relax to ..."
"Men are visually aroused by women's bodies and less sensitive to their arousal by women's personalities because they are trained early into that response, while women are less visually aroused and mor..."
"What becomes of a man who acquires a beautiful woman, with her "beauty" his sole target? He sabotages himself. He has gained no friend, no ally, no mutual trust: She knows quite well why she has been ..."
"The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behaviour and not appearance."