Advertising Quote by Ellen Willis

Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it. By continually pushing the message…

— Ellen Willis

There is ugliness of mass production and consumerism, the banality of advertising. Although it claims to do just the opposite, it's predicated on disempowering…

— Stephanie Mills

Capitalism is an art form.

— Camille Paglia

Advertising, the product of capitalism, can only justify itself on the premise that the market is a force for good.

— Justin Cartwright

“Our ego is stroked and cultivated to the point we don’t even notice that we are being manipulated by advertising departments and huge corporations.…

— David Carlyle

“The television commercial has mounted the most serious assault on capitalist ideology since the publication of Das Kapital. To understand why, we must remind…

— Neil Postman

Capitalism brainwashes us through advertising and the skewing of priorities .... We need economies that promote human values, seek to limit suffering, and are…

— Sulak Sivaraksa

An economy where advertisers thrive while journalists and artists struggle, reflects the values of a society more interested in deception and manipulation than in…

— Jaron Lanier

The monopoly capitalists - even while employing purely empirical methods - weave around art a complicated web which converts it into a willing tool.…

— Che Guevara

The art market does represent a sort of hyper-capitalism: it produces added value without any actual work being done.

— Thomas Koerfer

“If you want to know what’s really going on in a society or ideology, follow the money. If money is flowing to advertising instead…

— Jaron Lanier

But it [crony capitalism] erodes our overall standard of living and stifles entrepreneurs by rewarding the politically favored rather than those who provide what…

— Charles Koch