Muriel Rukeyser Quotes

If Madison Avenue advertising executives were to pick a song that would best represent America, the last one they would choose is 'The Star Spangled Banner.'

When I was in advertising we used to pull them in with naked women. Now I do it with swastikas and uniforms.

As a matter of fact, it is the fascist minded men of America who are the real enemies of our institutions.... It is these men who, pretending that they would save us from communism, would superimpose upon America an equally dreaded fascism.

Speeches made to the people are essential to the arousing of enthusiasm for a war.

China’s educational system has fed the country’s youth a steady diet of patriotism to ward off rebellious thoughts. But such measures appear almost redundant since many young Chinese seem more interested in buying i-phones and Louis Vuitton products than in fighting for democratic change.

Probably the best advertising jobs of all are done by governments to convince people to go to war.

When I wrote 'Pink Houses,' nobody was talking about that, right? The next thing I know, you can't see the TV without hearing commercials with 'Listen to the heartbeat of America,' or 'Born the American way.' That whole America thing now - I hate it.

For all those who experienced it, the Spanish Civil War was devastating.

Advertising, the product of capitalism, can only justify itself on the premise that the market is a force for good.

In America the word revolutionary is used to sell pantyhose.

Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.

I love the ideals of my country. But I hate that we've been so denied any real knowledge of the world and don't have the education to think clearly, so we vote against our economic interest and believe in our most shallow first thoughts of fear and hatred.

'Make America great again,' is not that different from Putin's nostalgia for the Soviet Union or tsarist Russia.

Since coming back from overseas, this is more of a foreign country than the places overseas. I don't understand it. It's like America has lost faith in rational thought.

Twitter has revealed some monstrous information in Congress: we spent money on our ad campaigns. Just as all the usual media organizations in the world do.

I don't need a certificate of my patriotism from those in the establishment.

While the Cold War had us questioning our next-door neighbors, big brands emerged to capture our trust. We became consumers.

I honestly believe that we are Arizonans and Americans first, not merely advocates for our respective political parties.

After completing my studies, I got into advertising.

Advertising has always been something I kind of understood.

Castro always used the boxers as a symbolic war against American values to demonstrate that they fight for something more than money.

I haven't written too many political lyrics. Nor have I written any pro-Canada lyrics, any kind of jingoistic, nationalistic cant... That stuff doesn't interest me and I don't even know if I could write that if I tried because I don't really feel it.

'Powers of Persuasion: The Story of British Advertising' by Winston Fletcher - the impression you get from reading this book, which covers post-war advertising until the present, is of a chaotic, self-serving, occasionally brilliant but ultimately shallow business.

All our advertising is propaganda, of course, but it has become so much a part of our life, is so pervasive, that we just don't know what it is propaganda for.

Scientific advertising has altered many old plans and conceptions. It has proved many long established methods to be folly