Advertising Quote by Erich Fromm

Great advertising triggers an emotion in you. It has purpose. It touches a nerve, and that provokes a reaction.

— David Droga

“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

“Appealing to our subconscious emotions rather than our conscious intellects, advertisements are designed to exploit the discontentments fostered by the American dream, the constant…

— Sonia Maasik

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

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 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

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

— Anonymous

Advertising is the art of persuasion.

— William Bernbach

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

— Maurice Saatchi

Like propaganda generally, advertising must thus pervade the atmosphere; for it wants, paradoxically, to startle its beholders without really being noticed by them. Its…

— Mark Crispin Miller

Advertising design, in persuading people to buy things they don't need, with money they don't have, in order to impress others who don't care,…

— Victor Papanek

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

— Ralph Washington Sockman