Kilbourne's Quotes

#1. Jean Kilbourne's book, Can't Buy My Love,

Brene Brown

#2. Do you really want to know where we come from?" she said. "In every century, in every country, they'll call us something different. They'll say we're ghosts, angels, demons, elemental spirits, and giving us a name doesn't help anybody. When did a name change what someone is?

Brenna Yovanoff

#3. The Messianic era is the present age, which began to germinate with the teachings of Spinoza, and finally came into historical existence with the great French Revolution.

Moses Hess

#4. A food processor, or even one of those small bowls that fit on a stick blender, is a real treasure. No, that's not an overstatement.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#5. Indeed the very worst kind of man for a women to be in an intimate relationship with, often a truly dangerous man, is the one considered most sexy and desirable in the popular culture.

Jean Kilbourne

#6. 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, perhaps impossible, to be violent to someone we think of as an equal, someone we have empathy with, but it is very easy to abuse a thing

Jean Kilbourne

#7. Addiction beggins whith the hope that something 'out there' can instantly fill up the emptiness inside.

Jean Kilbourne

#8. Good Lord, His Grace the Ass hiding in the bushes," Apollo muttered. "Whatever are you doing here?" "Ah, Kilbourne, you've regained your voice," Wakefield drawled. "Pity, but I presume my wife is thrilled. And you are?" He looked pointedly at Montgomery.

Elizabeth Hoyt

#9. Men who believe too firmly in their theories, do not believe enough in the theories of others. So ... these despisers of their fellows ... make experiments only to destroy a theory, instead of to seek the truth.

Claude Bernard

#10. 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 normalcy. To a great extent they tell us who we are and who we should be.

Jean Kilbourne

#11. The greatest power we have in life is not external, but internal.

Steve Knox

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

Jean Kilbourne

#13. The more you subtract, the more you add,

Jean Kilbourne

#14. THERE WERE THOSE who compared Bedlam to hell - a writhing purgatory of torture and insanity. But Apollo Greaves, Viscount Kilbourne, knew what Bedlam really was. It was limbo. A place of interminable waiting.

Elizabeth Hoyt

#15. Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.

Boethius

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

Jean Kilbourne

#17. Our need for social and personal change and power is often co-opted and trivialized into an adolescent and self-centered kind of rebellion.

Jean Kilbourne

#18. 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 most dehumanizing thing you can do to someone. Not only is she a thing, but just one part of that thing is focused on.

Jean Kilbourne