According to the estimate of a prominent advertising firm, above 90 per cent, of the earning capacity of the prominent nostrums is represented by their advertising. And all this advertising is based on the well-proven theory of the public's pitiable ignorance and gullibility in the vitally important matter of health.
Interpretation
This quote critiques the heavy reliance on advertising in healthcare, reflecting on public naivety regarding health products.
Samuel Hopkins Adams emphasizes the significant role that advertising plays in the profitability of health-related products, suggesting that consumers are often misled by their lack of knowledge and naivety. He points out that a large portion of these products' earning potential relies not on their actual effectiveness but rather on the persuasive and often misleading nature of their marketing strategies.
In practice
In a discussion on ethics in advertising during a marketing conference.
With a few honorable exceptions the press of the United States is at the beck and call of the patent medicines. Not only do the newspapers modify news possibly affecting these interests, but they sometimes become their agents.
Such is of the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere.
What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several.
I hold the most archaic values on earth ... the fertility of the soul, the magic of the animals, the power-vision in solitude.... the love and ecstasy of the dance, the common work of the tribe.
I am opposed to all forms of control; I am for an absolute laissez faire, free, unregulated economy. I am for the separation of the state and economics, just as we had separation of state and church, which led to peaceful coexistence among different religions...so the same applies to economics. If you separate the government from economics, if you do not regulate production and trade, you will have peaceful cooperation, and harmony and justice among men.
What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.
There have been innumerable Temporary Seekers after the Truth-have you ever heard of a permanent one?
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