First place Quote by Francesca Martínez

“Whenever manufacturers claim to be responding to a ‘need’, it seems that people have to be reminded through advertising in case they have forgotten…

— Gabrielle Palmer

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

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

“If ads are about selling things, they are not only about selling things; their images can carry symbolic meanings, transmit messages, and create moods…

— John Jervis

Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises,…

— Samuel Johnson

“The advertising industry's prime task is to ensure that uninformed consumers make irrational choices, thus undermining market theories that are based on just the…

— Noam Chomsky

If we listen human instinct actually tells us what we need, but advertising makes us want things we don't need and things we can't…

— Kit Williams

“Why do we market to people the way we hate to be marketed to?”

— Scott Stratten

“Advertising is the insidious whisper of the bad angel of commerce.”

— Leo Babauta

“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

The ad industry thinks their clients are their customers. They think the companies who pay for the production are the ones they are supposed…

— Simon Sinek

“Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need.”

— Chuck Palahniuk