Richard M. Weaver Quotes

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising.

The modern holy trinity is money, sex and celebrity.

In modern industrial society only minimal effort is necessary to satisfy one's physical needs.

What's really baffling to me is the way that the technology has risen up to help us become more materialistic.

Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned.

Modern man has lost the option of silence.

All that mankind has ever learned is nothing more than a single grain of sand on a beach that reaches to infinity.

Do not be caught up in materialism, one of the real plagues of our generation-that is, acquiring things, fast-paced living, and securing career success.

No one outside America any longer believes the US media or the US government... You can't believe a word the American media says. If they say anything correct, it's just an accident.

I think if you ask what people really mean by happiness today, it is the experience of unlimited consumption - the kind of thing Mr. Huxley described in "Brave New World."

The advertising industry is one of our most basic forms of communication and, allegedly, of information. Yet, obviously, much of this ostensible information is not purveyed to inform but to manipulate and to achieve a result - to make somebody think he needs something that very possibly he doesn't need, or to make him think one version of something is better than another version when the ground for such a belief really doesn't exist.

The modern choice is between non-violence or non-existence.

Most 'scientists' are bottle washers and button sorters.

I doubt there's ever been a true thing said on Fox. Maybe the weather report, maybe not.

When I met scientists, I found them to be as various as any other group of people.

A few men are sufficient to broach falsehoods, which are afterwards innocently diffused by successive relaters.

Our culture has filled our heads but emptied our hearts, stuffed our wallets but starved our wonder. It has fed our thirst for facts but not for meaning or mystery. It produces "nice" people, not heroes.

I think that any time reality doesn't match your expectations, it means that marketing was involved.

Once a man would spend a week patiently waiting if he missed a stage coach, but now he rages if he misses the first section of a revolving door.

See we just had a misunderstanding. I thought we lived in the U.S. of A., the United States of America. But actually we live in the U.S. of A., the United States of Advertising. Freedom of expression is guaranteed? If you've got the money!

We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

The natural scientist must be a modern materialist, a conscious adherent of the materialism represented by Marx, i.e., he must be a dialectical materialist.

The schizoid man is the natural product of the technological man. It is one way to live and is increasingly utilized and it may explode into violence.

And Burke, could he see our century, never would concede that a consumption-society, so near to suicide, is the end for which Providence has prepared man.