Advertising Quote by Anonymous

Advertising must respect the intelligence of its audience and if it does not prompt them to think, it will be instantly dismissed.

— Maurice Saatchi

Advertising ... is a parasitic activity; it forces goods for which there is no real need or demand on a foolish or even a…

— Ann Bridge

In the end, advertising rests upon the fact that consumers are a fickle and superstitious mob, incapable of any real judgment as to what…

— Walter Lippmann

Advertising tries to stimulate our sensuous desires, converting luxuries into necessities, but it only intensifies man's inner misery. The business world is bent on…

— Fulton J. Sheen

The point of advertising is to destroy markets.

— Noam Chomsky

Advertising serves not so much to advertise products as to promote consumption as a way of life. It 'educates' the masses into an unappeasable…

— Christopher Lasch

Advertising prods people into wanting more and better things. Of course advertising makes people dissatisfied with what they have - makes them raise their…

— Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

The interesting thing about advertising is that the things that annoy us sometimes about it are really human. It's us looking at ourselves -…

— Jaron Lanier

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.

— George Santayana

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.

— Will Rogers

advertising confuses values ... By appealing either to fear, or to vanity, or to covetousness, it very skillfully insinuates false values.

— Ann Bridge

“In fact quite generally, commercial advertising is fundamentally an effort to undermine markets. We should recognize that. If you’ve taken an economics course, you…

— Noam Chomsky