Randal Marlin Quotes

What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.

Political advertising ought to be stopped. It's the only really dishonest kind of advertising that's left. It's totally dishonest.

I am one who believes that one of the greatest dangers of advertising is not that of misleading people, but that of boring them to death.

Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things.

It is flagrantly dishonest for an advertising agent to urge consumers to buy a product which he would not allow his own wife to buy.

There is a great deal of advertising that is much better than the product. When that happens, all that the good advertising will do is put you out of business faster.

Telling lies does not work in advertising.

In political advertising, truth only has an advantage when a credible source makes it known.

WARNING: POLITICAL ADVERTISING CAN LEGALLY DISTORT THE TRUTH.

Warning: This ad has not been cleared for truth and fairness as ads for commercial products are.

If people felt that they were misled with 'It Comes at Night,' they should know that the marketing here is deliberately misleading you in an honest way, in that we're not hiding what isn't there: we're hiding what is there.

Have I ever had dance lessons? I'm mobile, but not nearly as much as our promotional videos lead people to believe.

Anything that causes you to doubt, to raise either objections or just concerns about it - and they always put the information right at the bottom of the screen so you can't really read it - every time you see a company do that, the ad becomes less effective. The communication becomes less effective.

The elections are run by the same guys who sell toothpaste. They show you an image of a sports hero, or a sexy model, or a car going up a sheer cliff or something, which has nothing to do with the commodity, but it's intended to delude you into picking this one rather than another one.

Sometimes when you work in advertising you'll get a product that's really garbage and you have to make it seem fantastic, something that is essential to the continued quality of life.

The TV commercials, which are endless and fairly crass, gave birth to Brock, the bad-lawyer character in Razor Girl. In real life you can find even sleazier examples than him.

When you give false information you tend to restrict the freedom of choice to others.

Nobody has ever, ever, in the history of politics received the kind of negative advertising that I have. Record, record. By the way mostly false, I wouldn't say 100 percent but about 90 percent. Mostly false, vicious, horrible.

I considered bringing forward information about these surveillance programs prior to the election, but I held off because I believed that [Barack] Obama was genuine when he said he was going to change things. I wanted to give the democratic process time to work.

What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?

He who knows what he is told must know a lot of things that are not so.

To give truth to him who loves it not is but to give him more plentiful material for misinterpretation.

All the information I have about myself is from forged documents.

Any ad which quotes what I said on Sunday is a falsehood.

If you let markets - in general, my belief is that if you let markets give you information, they'll give you the information rather than artificially prop up everything.