Quotes on publicity by Carl William Brown, aphorisms, ideas, thoughts and short witty criticisms about advertising and its devastating role in the media business.
Every age has its own crazy laws that govern society; nowadays one of these is the law of the market.
Carl William Brown
The fair value of a product should be determined by the market, that is, by supply and demand; but what happens if the market is stupid, corrupt, vain and shamelessly polluted.
Carl William Brown
Google’s algorithms and artificial intelligence allow them to have control over their advertising circuits, and increasingly also over the people who use them.
Carl William Brown
Since television programs have become so stupid and insipid, advertising has also made great strides.
Carl William Brown
Advertising is very useful, in fact when I see an advertisement for a product, I know I must not buy it.
Carl William Brown
Advertising makes products cost twice their intrinsic value and then allows a bunch of imbeciles to split the profit.
Carl William Brown
If iteration is the basis of poetic discourse, then advertising is certainly the poetry of stupidity.
Carl William Brown
Hyperbole, exaggeration, idiocy, falsehood, banality, stupidity, all this constitutes the language of advertising.
Carl William Brown
The free market system thanks to enlightened capitalists reduces you to misery, while the consumerist system thanks to its illusory advertising invites you to spend more and more.
Carl William Brown
Advertising is a symphony of messages, it is a world of dreams, it is the art of communication, yes, it is the art of transmitting nonsense.
Carl William Brown
Advertising certainly increases crime, therefore it is certainly criminal, execute them!
Carl William Brown
Either advertising wants to make people stupid, or it already considers them stupid, otherwise it would not be so stupid.
Carl William Brown
The rules of the free market allow one to enrich oneself freely and therefore preclude the way for any rule.
Carl William Brown
This website is proudly free of ads, listings, cookies and other propaganda, so you can visit it without any hassle or worry.
Carl William Brown
I wonder why they never advertise excrement, but pooping is good for you.
Carl William Brown
Some pseudo-independent entities of the Italian alternative cultural scene do not like advertising, perhaps because they consider it dirty. Instead, the money they collect at their parties where alcohol and drugs flow freely, and the funding they receive from the various administrators on duty, appear to be, in their opinion, clearly cleaner.
Carl William Brown
Just as I am not interested in television advertising, but I watch it, so I do the same with Internet ads, I am not interested in them, but I click on them, so someone makes money, and I get what I donated.
Carl William Brown
War graveyards. The dead in war are nothing but advertisements to enrich the funereal marketing of world stupidity.
Carl William Brown
By now, shopping tips have even reached school books, so I too will need some advertising, and what better for a book that incites revolt than a nice sponsorship of an arms factory.
Carl William Brown
Unfortunately, in the coming years, advertising can only improve, in fact it could hardly become more stupid than it is; those in the sector, however, do not despair. Spes Ultima Dea
Carl William Brown
Advertising is a symphony of messages, it is a world of dreams, it is the art of communication; yes, it is the art of transmitting nonsense.
Carl William Brown
The church prays for us, industrialists produce for us, the mass media inform and entertain us, advertising stimulates us, politicians administer us, banks preserve our savings, law enforcement protects us, schools educate us… and then we complain!
Carl William Brown
Enlightened capitalists first reduce you to poverty and then, thanks to advertising, invite you to consume more and more.
Carl William Brown
I would kindly like to tell all those professional and non-professional sites that inundate you with advertising, that require email, registration, subscription, and so on and so forth to go to hell. You must die, you idiots!
Carl William Brown
Since the world is so keen on worshipping its imbecility and propagating its stupidity, I don’t see why those who try to fight it shouldn’t advertise themselves a little to achieve at least a minimum of popularity.
Carl William Brown
The main purpose of advertising is to develop from an early age the faith that leads to accepting the authority of stupidity.
Carl William Brown
Google, thanks to its intelligent algorithms, claims to control the improper use of advertising, but at the same time it is perhaps still very far from limiting the chaotic stupidity of the world.
Carl William Brown
Advertising is certainly one of the most powerful socializing forces in culture and it sells not only products, but also images, values, aspirations, illusions, ideas, concepts, ambitions, vanity and a lot of
stupidity.
Carl William Brown
Advertising could also be considered in a certain way as a form of coercion, of corrupting information, in short a form of abuse of popular credulity.
Carl William Brown
An Italian female writer said that 99% of advertising makes you want to vomit, it’s disgusting. I assume therefore that the same goes for the advertisments of her books.
Carl William Brown
Of course the world is increasingly full of idiocies, think that some companies first pollute and destroy nature, then to advertise themselves they finance the WWF and the environmental league.
Carl William Brown
The world is always improving, for example, once rich patrons paid artists to help them in their work; today the rich help advertising.
Carl William Brown
Religion and advertising are the souls of commerce, only that in religion at least something good is there.
Carl William Brown
Modern education represents the dominant culture, the pedagogy of the spot to spread the winning philosophy of advertising.
Carl William Brown
The poor, through the license fee or advertising, pay for television to watch the rich having fun.
Carl William Brown
Advertising may be the soul of commerce, but when it’s on I change the channel, immediately.
Carl William Brown
Social media and advertising are great for probing and studying the nefarious stupidity of the global market of humanity.
Carl William Brown
Only a few can freely enrich themselves on the free market, for the multitude free competition only means the freedom to end up in poverty.
Carl William Brown
Let’s not forget that behind the artificial intelligence of the big companies that profit from advertising, there is always the humanoid imbecility of their managers and shareholders.
Carl William Brown
It is not true that advertising is the soul of commerce; weapons, for example, are not advertised anywhere, yet they sell very well.
Carl William Brown
Advertising is a sign of current events, its signifier is attractive, its meaning is devastating. Advertising is a sign, it is a sign of stupidity.
Carl William Brown
But do you know that certain philosophers of language, certain semiologists, who pose as committed intellectuals, criticize advertising and the world of hidden persuaders so much and then earn hundreds of millions working for famous advertising agencies.
Carl William Brown
With Plato we could also say that beauty is also good, but not vice versa; in fact, take an ugly woman or an ugly man who behaves well, could we still say that they are beautiful? And if so, we could perhaps hope to make them work in TV, cinema, fashion or advertising business.
Carl William Brown
As man began to doubt the traditional deities, it was necessary to create new idols, as has always happened throughout history. And so the stars of cinema, television, advertising, and fashion were born.
Carl William Brown
The stupidity of modern television news and its journalists, unaware sycophants of the powerful consumer society dominated by advertising and ideologically consecrated by the law of the market, justifies all the crimes that have been perpetrated and that will be committed in the future, and is therefore perfectly legitimate.
Carl William Brown
Even though I have been advertising books for years, as a teacher, I have never received a penny from this noble promotion, and then any idiot who is the testimonial of any stupid product on TV is capable of earning a gret lot of money, which is regularly and unknowingly paid by consumers at the time of their purchases.
Carl William Brown
André Breton, one of the fathers of surrealism, said that by going in and out of several movie theaters, he eventually understood more than by following a single movie. Even today, with zapping, with Blob, with Tik Tok and the Internet, with advertising, everything is fragmented, deconstructed, dissected and finally stupidity also has its great surrealist moment.
Carl William Brown
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