"The real danger from advertising is that it helps to shatter and ultimately destroy our most precious non-material possessions: the confidence in the existence of meaningful purposes of human activity and respect for the integrity of man."

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Source : "The Political Economy of Media: Enduring Issues, Emerging Dilemmas". Book by Robert W. McChesney, May 1, 2008.

Paul Sweezy

#Confidence Quotes #Meaningful Quotes #Real Quotes

“Perhaps society should give actors the same sort of protection it gives to those who follow a religious life. Actor/priest was originally the same job. The theater is left wing magic and theology is right wing magic.”
“Protestations of indifference to higher office are hard to take seriously when the 'non-candidate' is busily engaged in testing the waters.”
“Whenever you go on a trip to visit foreign lands or distant places, remember that they are all someone's home and backyard.”
“Good writing takes place at intersections, at what you might call knots, at places where the society is snarled or knotted up.”

Source : FaceBook post by Margaret Atwood from Nov 08, 2011
“We could have a greener economy, even a greener consumer economy by changing the rules - whether it's by taxing carbon or trading carbon, I'm not sure what - but in the end there's just a fundamental problem with the sheer amount we're consuming.”
“Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one.”
“When the April wind wakes the call for the soil, I hold the plough as my only hold upon the earth, and, as I follow through the fresh and fragrant furrow, I am planted with every foot-step, growing, budding, blooming into a spirit of spring.”
“I get offended when people say, `So, being a white rapper...and growing up white...after being born white...' It's all I ever hear!”

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