Misleading Messages Quotes

Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about.

Are we diminishing the bully pulpit to a pulpit of bull?

Political commercials encourage the deceptive, the destructive and the degrading.

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

We are missing the truth. We live in a society that lies and fosters and sells dishonesty at a discount. Remember the line, 'America spells cheese K-R-A-F-T? That does not spell cheese! We tell our kids that as long as it looks good on the outside, don't worry about the inside. Or work hard and you'll be rewarded in the end. That's not necessarily true anymore. We don't tell the truth about certain things. Young people see our hypocrisy. We haven't given them a model to follow.

Television screens saturated with commercials promote the utopian and childish idea that all problems have fast, simple, and technological solutions. You must banish from your mind the naive but commonplace notion that commercials are about products. They are about products in the same sense that the story of Jonah is about the anatomy of whales.

I won't make shorthand films, because I don't want to manipulate audiences into assuming quick, manufactured truths.

The unlimited power that many modern gurus offer is false hope. Their programs calling us to unlimited power have made them rich, not us. They touch our false selves and tap our toxic shame.

What Western society teaches us is that if you get enough money, power, and beautiful people to have sex with, that's going to bring you happiness. That's what every commercial, every magazine, music, movie teaches us. That's a fallacy.

You got a lot of fradulent rebels and revolutionaries who are really false prophets.

Every false prophet comes in odd moments to believe in the truth of his false doctrine

If people ever talked the way advertising sounded, they would be put away.

The art of advertisement, after the American manner, has introduced into all our life such a lavish use of superlatives, that no standard of value whatever is intact.

Millions of dollars' worth of advertising shows such little respect for the reader's intelligence that it amounts almost to outright insult.

There is a tendency to try to dumb everything down and turn everything into a one-paragraph press release or even less, just a slogan.

I hate the things they preach. They found a gimmick that sells. The fact that they're making money off all these teenage kids who actually believe in their message is disgusting.

Sad to say, negative advertising really works.