John Vanhara

“You must participate in competition, in struggle, in the life of the world. If you stop, you no longer exist. If you fall behind, you’re dead.’ Denying any notion of eternity, defining itself as a process of permanent renewal, advertising aims to vaporize human subjects, to transform them into obedient phantoms of becoming. And this skin-deep, superficial participation in the life of the world is supposed to take the place of the desire for being.”
― Michel Houellebecq, Interventions 2020

“I will begin with this: Do not roam among the haggard and the meek. Do not fight for scraps of food that are moist with stagnant rains. Do not enter the crucible of egoistic men who compete over dime and dollar. Rise, my student. And insist First upon the glory of Freedom. So that no arena can contain you. And no man can equal you. For your journey is unlike any other man in the field.”
― Kapil Gupta, A Master's Secret Whispers: For those who abhor the noise and seek The Truth about life and living

“Affirmative. A hard-and-fast rule in business is to never accept the first offer. Remember that, and you will never go wrong.”
― Haruki Murakami, Killing Commendatore

“Come get your apples! Chernobyl apples!’ Someone told her not to advertise that, no one will buy them. ‘Don’t worry!’ she says. ‘They buy them anyway. Some need them for their mother-in-law, some for their boss.”
― Svetlana Alexievich, Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster