Quote by John Berger
Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is

Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal – John Berger

Other quotes by John Berger

The human imagination… has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open. – John Berger

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Dreams
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The media network has its idols, but its principal idol is its own style which generates an aura of winning and leaves the rest in darkness. It recognizes neither pity nor pitilessness. – John Berger

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Media
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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget. – John Berger

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Photography
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The trouble with us in America isn’t that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy. – Louis Kronenberger

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Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn’t have to advertise it. – Will Rogers

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Advertising

It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country. – Raymond Chandler

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Advertising

Telling lies does not work in advertising. – Tim Bell

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Advertising

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Democracy is an abuse of statistics. – Jorge Luis Borges

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If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident. – Montesquieu

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In communications, familiarity breeds apathy. – William Bernbach

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Spider-Mans probably my favorite. You see, Batman is a billionaire and theres nothing really cool about a billionaire saving the world. But Spider-Man is Peter Parker, a conflicted character who puts on a suit and saves the world. I love that. – Zac Efron

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