Vilhjalmur Stefansson Quotes

WARNING: POLITICAL ADVERTISING CAN LEGALLY DISTORT THE TRUTH.

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

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.

Telling lies does not work in advertising.

It is true that advertising often gives information and is valuable for doing so, but some forms of advertising give precious little information, and even that little is wrong.

Regardless of the moral issue, dishonesty in advertising has proved very unprofitable.

The usual trade and commerce is cheating all around by consent.

It is very dangerous for a government, judge or jury to determine what is deceptive advertising in a political context…. We pay a price for freedom of speech, and that price includes falsehoods that can be repeated thousands of time.

You're not allowed to lure people into spending their money or betting their money based on false representations.

I love advertising because I love lying. I think spending your life trying to dupe innocent people out of hard-won earnings to buy useless, low-quality, misrepresented items and services is an excellent use of your energy.

advertisement ... has brought our disregard for truth into the open without even a figleaf to cover it.

If I pick up a book with vampires on the cover, I want there to be vampires. If I pick up a book with spaceships on the cover, I want spaceships. If I see one with dragons, I want there to be dragons inside the book. Proper labeling. Ethical labeling.

I can not think of any circumstances in which advertising would not be an evil.

Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things.

Any seeming deception in a statement is costly, not only in the expense of the advertising but in the detrimental effect produced upon the customer, who believes she has been misled.

Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine.

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

White lies always introduce others of a darker complexion.

Consumers are increasingly feeling that they are being taken for a ride.

The permanent campaign is inherently deceptive.

I want to clear up a few myths about myself. People have written that I was a kindergarten teacher and a former Miss Texas, and neither is true.

They've gone to great length to disguise the fact that I'm not in the band, even sending out a photo to promoters with my picture in it which then winds up in some of the ads on the flyers.

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

I made it real clear to the business community - if your plan for innovation is to trick people, is to fool them, is not to tell them the truth about the price, then you're right: I'm going to be right in the way.

Advertising is legalized lying.