"The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist."

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Source : Guy Debord (2014). “The Society of the Spectacle”, p.39, Bureau of Public Secrets

Guy Debord

#Powerful Quotes #Class Quotes #Claims Quotes

“I can write with absolutely perfect penmanship with my feet. If I broke both my arms, I could still write a girl a love letter using just my toes.”
“It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.”
“Perhaps the time has come to formulate a moral code which would govern our relations with the great creatures of the sea as well as with those on dry land. That this will come to pass is my dear wish.”
“The more informative your advertising, the more persuasive it will be.”

Source : David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House
“We must not return to the practice of hiding our defects so they may not be seen. That would be neither honest nor revolutionary.”
“Be Somebody who makes Everybody feel like a Somebody.”
“How can you communicate your thoughts or demonstrate your hypotheses by conventional means when all the values and standards that you want to challenge are built into those means? Science and new technology today like to declare that they encourage 'lateral thinking,' new ways of seeing and putting data together - but all systems have an inbuilt resistance to what has not been programmed into them through the premises on which their rules are based.”
“Weâ€™d spent years as adversaries, two predators sharing territory and a certain, unwelcome attraction. Somehow, during all those years I spent outwardly acquiescing to his demands while making sure I held my own, Iâ€™d won his respect. Iâ€™d had werewolves love me and hate me, but Iâ€™d never had one respect me before. Not even Samuel. Adam respected me enough to act on my suspicions. It meant a lot.”

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