Adapting Quote by Calvin Coolidge

Advertising is the edge of what people know how to do and of human experience and it explains the latest ways progress has changed…

— Jaron Lanier

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

Advertising is about norms and values, aspirations and prejudices. It is about culture.

— Anil Ambani

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 enriches life by quickening the imagination, arousing interest and enlarging the taste.

— Ralph Washington Sockman

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 profoundly manipulative at its core. Its imagery strives to deprive us of realistic ideas about love, sex, beauty, health, money, work, and…

— Jennifer L. Pozner

Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.

— Marshall McLuhan

Advertising, as a single entity capable of creating vast changes in our social structure, simply does not exist. Its impact is too diffuse, too…

— Prince William of Hesse-Kassel

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

I view advertising as being this romanticizing element that helps us appreciate, understand and enjoy how remarkable it is that we've been able to…

— Jaron Lanier

Advertising is the ability to sense, interpret... to put the very heart throbs of a business into type, paper and ink.

— Leo Burnett