top of page
"The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Power quotes

"If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."

"Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals."

"More powerful than the mighty armies is an idea whose time has come."

"Film provides an opportunity to marry the power of ideas with the power of images."
Explore more quotes by Daniel J. Boorstin

"We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place."

"I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one."

"An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service."

"As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves."

"The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life."

"We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesting from God to the newspaperman."
bottom of page