Anybody who sets out to turn the world upside down has no right to complain if he gets caught in its gears. The Space Merchants (1953)
Increase of population was always good news to us. More people, more sales. Decrease of IQ was always good news to us. Less brains, more sales. The Space Merchants (1953)
It was an appeal to reason, and they’re always dangerous. You can’t trust reason. We threw it out of the ad profession long ago and have never missed it. The Space Merchants (1953)
That’s power, Mitch, absolute power. And you know the old saying. Power ennobles. Absolute power ennobles absolutely. The Space Merchants (1953)
He drew himself up and said with dignity: “We administer justice, Mr. Courtenay. And an ancient, basic tenet of justice is: ‘Better that one thousand innocents suffer unjustly than one guilty person be permitted to escape.’” The Space Merchants (1953)
‘Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness,Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time—’That’s the sort of thing she would have written before the rise of advertising. The correlation is perfectly clear. Advertising up, lyric poetry down. The Space Merchants (1953)