“Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness...” — Thomas Merton Quote

“Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments.”

“We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.”

“It is true that neither the ancient wisdoms nor the modern sciences are complete in themselves. They do not stand alone. They call for one another. Wisdom without science is unable to penetrate the full sapiential meaning of the created and the material cosmos. Science without wisdom leaves man enslaved to a world of unrelated objects in which there is no way of discovering (or creating) order and deep significance in man's own pointless existence. (p. 4)”

“Now with the Internet, a celebrity is fair game, and it's all designed to sell advertising space.”

“Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising.”

“Inequality reigns in horrifying ways, and not everyone can even read, but the world of media and advertising withholds very little from the imagination of the dispossessed.”