"Ads sell more than products. They sell values, they sell images. They sell concepts of love and sexuality, of success, and perhaps most important, of normalcy. To a great extent they tell us who we are and who we should be."

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Source : "Killing Us Softly 4: Advertising's Image of Women". Documentary, 2010.

Jean Kilbourne

#Important Quotes #Normalcy Quotes #Who We Are Quotes

“Anytime you start getting a real tangible relationship with something that's been blown up to a legendary status, you just realize that every part of it is just people getting ahead.”
“Our mind, by virtue of a certain finite, limited capability, is by no means capable of putting a question to Nature that permits a continuous series of answers. The observations, the individual results of measurements, are the answers of Nature to our discontinuous questioning.”
“There is nothing more humiliating than loving someone so much that you forgive the infidelities.”

Source : "Who said that ?". www.mirror.co.uk. February 04, 2012.
“[An artist] will sooner and with more certainty, establish the character of skeletons, than the most learned anatomist, whose eye has not been accustomed to seize on every peculiarity.”
“When you're a teenager, your friends are your life. When you grow up, friendships seem to get pushed further and further back, until it seems like a luxury, a frivolity, like a bubble bath.”
“To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.”
“Progressive policies are harming the Black community.”
“Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure... they govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think: every effort we can make to throw off our subjection, will serve but to demonstrate and confirm it.”

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