Jane McGonigal Quotes

Children are being adultified because our economy is depending on them to make purchasing decisions. So they're essentially the victims of a marketing and capitalist machine gone awry.

At times, some journalists see nothing in the people apart from an opportunity to make material gain. They see them as consumers to whom we sell commodities at huge profits that keep our bank accounts growing.

Wal-Mart doesn't really care about your faith. Wal-Mart cares if you have money to spend, and it is going to be as generic as possible in exploiting the holiday season for every buck it can make.

History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.

It's a business, and I'm a product. Terrible, isn't it?

We all have to be dishes on a plate eventually, with the way we are marketed, but I have no intention of being a cheap Chinese all-you-can-eat buffet.

Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy.

Marketing is the devil.

The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf.

The relentless pressures of the so-called marketplace have distorted all our culture industries.

I have been asked what would I ban immediately if I could. Advertising.

Children's television has been grossly over-commercialized. The subtle message is, "Buy me! Buy me!

I'm only a product like a cake of soap, to be sold as well as possible.

There is massive propaganda for everyone to consume. Consumption is good for profits and consumption is good for the political establishment.

The promotional environment is part of the world we live in.

You can feel how much money goes into commercials by how swiftly they act on your mind. And they've got, like, a hypnotic quality to the way they present their products.

I don't like ads. I don't like selling things. That's not me.

Commercialism is doing well that which should not be done at all.

No shame, no solution, no remorse, no retribution, just people selling t-shirts.

… a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

In America, even revolutions need a commercial sponsor.

The marketing of anything is full of exploitation and lies and hype.

I think a lot of things are shoved in our face, politically and historically, for money, and that's the motive.

Marketing is not a nice word, but the world is about marketing now.

Advertising's always been a considerable pressure on publishers.