Ads sell more than products. They sell values, they sell images. They sell concepts of love and sexuality, of success and perhaps most important, of …

- Jean Kilbourne

The Ideal Consumer is someone who is constantly dissatisfies, constanly needs more and more products in order to feel better.

- Jean Kilbourne

Advertising doesn't cause addictions. But it does create a climate of denial and it contributes mightily to a belief in the quick fix, instant gratif…

- Jean Kilbourne

The fact is that much of advertising's power comes from this belief that advertising does not affect us. The most effective kind of propaganda is tha…

- Jean Kilbourne

Turning a human being into a thing, an object, is almost always the first step towards justifying violence against that person. It is very difficult,…

- Jean Kilbourne

Woman’s bodies continue to be dismembered in advertising. Over and over again just one part of the body is used to sell products, which is one of the…

- Jean Kilbourne

Turning a human being into a thing is almost always the first step towards justifying violence against that person.

- Jean Kilbourne

The more you subtract, the more you add.

- Jean Kilbourne

Girls get the message from very early on that what's most important is how they look, that their value, their worth depends on that. And boys get the…

- Jean Kilbourne