Vance Packard Quotes

#1. Ibn Taymiyyah lived poorly. He was imprisoned and threatened. But I have never seen anyone as happy as him.

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

#2. Not necessarily what's tough for you is tough for everyone.

Sarvesh Jain

#3. Rich widows are the only secondhand goods that sell at first-class prices.

Benjamin Franklin

#4. No one can take culture seriously if he believes that it is only the uppermost of several layers of epiphenomena resting on a primary reality of economic activity.

Richard M. Weaver

#5. The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly.

Vance Packard

#6. What we seek is some kind of compensation for what we put up with.

Haruki Murakami

#7. If the person you are trying to diagnose politically is some sort of intellectual, the chances are two to one he is a Democrat.

Vance Packard

#8. Adventure is worthwhile.

Aristotle.

#9. Superpowers or not, a person should be allowed to be simply happy, without feeling like they need to strip off their skin.

Kelly Thompson

#10. The most common characteristic of all police states is intimidation by surveillance. Citizens know they are being watched and overheard. Their mail is being examined. Their homes can be invaded.

Vance Packard

#11. Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Vance Packard

#12. On the day that your mentality
Decides to catch up with your biology,
Come 'round

Morrissey

#13. As long as you keep learning from defeats, you will always keep coming back and get stronger all the time

Imran Khan Niazi

#14. My biggest prediction for the future is that people are going to start looking after individual investors.

John C. Bogle

#15. I liked the myth elements of Christmas. The way in which its origins reach back far beyond Jesus, to the rituals of people unknown to us. The celebration of the winter solstice. The coming of light in the darkest time.

Robert B. Parker

#16. There is something very basic to the sense of listening. The sense of hearing is the only one that operates totally from vibrations, without other physical or chemical reactions to receive the sensations.

Henry Reed

#17. In the field of marketing ... the trend toward selling [has] reached something of a nadir with the unveiling ... of so-called subliminal projection. That is the technique designed to flash messages past our conscious guard.

Vance Packard

#18. At one of the largest advertising agencies in America psychologists on the staff are probing sample humans in an attempt to find how to identify, and beam messages to, people of high anxiety, body consciousness, hostility, passiveness, and so on.

Vance Packard

#19. Differentiating from parental introjects and psychological defences based on the emotional pain of childhood is essential not only for neurotic or seriously disturbed individuals; it is a central developmental issue in every person's life.

Lisa Firestone

#20. The Cuban people have an amazingly strong and unbroken spirit.

Wim Wenders

#21. Furthermore, unlike Man's other great good friend the horse, the cat is no sweating serf of Man. The only labor she condescends to perform is to catch mice and rats, and that's fun.

Vance Packard

#22. The Christian notion of the possibility of redemption is incomprehensible to the computer.

Vance Packard

#23. You can't tell a millionaire's son from a billionaire's.

Vance Packard

#24. Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.

Vance Packard

#25. Rock and roll might be summed up as monotony tinged with hysteria.

Vance Packard

#26. I'll drive you home."
"On your white horse?"
"In my red truck.

Rainbow Rowell