Guy Debord Quotes

Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them.

It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.

In every area, we seem to have thrown everything away and embraced reality television. It's nauseating, programme after programme.

Advertising is the very essence of democracy.

Display advertising and the movies, though they may dull the wits, certainly stimulate the eyes.

I don't really watch television, and I don't watch these shows that promote shows.

You can't get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV.

What we want is a social harmony, even as we live in a world where any idea about 'the real thing' is as likely to evoke the ancient memory of an advertisement for a soda pop as anything solid or necessary.

I have to be careful of what TV shows I choose, particularly ones that have commercials in them, because it's going to be a different kind of television show.

The Death of Advertising? I think that's in the book of Revelation. It's the day when people everywhere become satisfied with their weight, their hair, their skin, their wardrobe, and their aroma.

The public doesn't particularly care for advertisements.

I'll tell you what I probably would prefer to happen less and less: actors that I know and respect in shampoo ads. Or modeling.

You learn more about life from watching 'Big Brother' than from reading a book.

You live in the city and all the time there are signs telling you what to do and billboards trying to sell you something.

The power of ads rests more in the repetition of obvious exhortations than in the subtle transmission of values.

One thing I've always been concerned about is the objectification of women in ads, and that's one thing where I was like, 'Well, if I become a part of advertising, I could change that.'

It is the growth of advertising in this country which, more than any single element, has brought the American magazine to its present enviable position in points of literary, illustrative and mechanical excellence.

I am so spoiled. I cannot watch a show where it gets interrupted for ads. I have to TiVo it and skip through the ads, because the culture of advertising is so false and phony that I just... ugh, you know?

Ads featuring real women and real beauty are such a necessary component to offset the potentially dangerous programming out there for little girls.

Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck.

I get one hour, really 25 minutes in a sermon on a weekend, to combat all the hours of the week that people are told you are what you have through billboards, commercials, and sitcoms, and so forth.

They tell us in magazines and in ads, 'Oh, you should look like this, you should wear this, you should look like this movie star, or you're nothing.' And so we're all totally unsatisfied.

Advertising generally works to reinforce consumer trends rather than to initiate them.

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

Visual images [in TV political advertising] have the capacity of disassociating themselves from their source.