Acquiring things Quote by Edward Norton

“Wherever I turn, I am accosted with enticing advertisements. Highly paid and highly sophisticated ad agencies employ all their creative talents to influence my…

— Mark Rosen

“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

Religious advertising is undergoing a dramatic conversion.

— Lisa Miller

Advertising reaches out to touch the fantasy part of people's lives. And you know, most people's fantasies are pretty sad.

— Frederik Pohl

Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief.

— Anonymous

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 a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Have you ever considered what anxious thought, what consummate knowledge of human nature, what dearly-bought experiences go into the making of an advertisement?

— William John Locke

Advertising is far from impotent or harmless; it is not a mere mirror image. Its power is real, and on the brink of a…

— Eric Clark

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 is full of great thinkers. This is a powerful industry and does a lot more than we take credit for.

— David Droga

The rich philistinism emanating from advertisements is due not to their exaggerating (or inventing) the glory of this or that serviceable article but to…

— Vladimir Nabokov