Daniel Boorstin Quotations

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.

We expect to eat and stay thin, to be constantly on the move and ever more neighbourly . . . to revere God and to be God.

The deeper problems connected with advertising come less from the unscrupulousness of our 'deceivers' than from our pleasure in being deceived, less from the desire to seduce than from the desire to be seduced.

When they built this building they were afraid to say that beauty is truth for fear that it wouldn't be by the time it was completed.

A sign of celebrity is often that their name is worth more than their services.