Advertising Quote by Errol Morris

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

Consumers know precisely what's wrong with advertising. Be it TV or print or whatever, they know that advertising is never creative enough ... never…

— Phil Dusenberry

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

Television screens saturated with commercials promote the utopian and childish idea that all problems have fast, simple, and technological solutions. You must banish from…

— Neil Postman

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

People ask 'How does doing a film compare to doing an ad?' Well, when you're doing a commercial you don't have to sell tickets.…

— Mike Mills

The fact is that much of advertising's power comes from this belief that advertising does not affect us. The most effective kind of propaganda…

— Jean Kilbourne

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 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

You see I don't like to be really too commercial about things but in this business you've just got to be commercial otherwise the…

— Peter Cushing

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

I suppose on the filmmaking side, you can learn how to cram a lot into a small space. But I think that advertising, even…

— Justin Cartwright