Advertising Quote by George Santayana

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.

— George Santayana

When governments rely increasingly on sophisticated public relations agencies, public debate disappears and is replaced by competing propaganda campaigns, with all the accompanying deceits.…

— Brian Eno

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 ... is a parasitic activity; it forces goods for which there is no real need or demand on a foolish or even a…

— Ann Bridge

Advertising degrades the people it appeals to; it deprives them of their will to choose.

— Anonymous

The greatest damage done by advertising is precisely that it incessantly demonstrates the prostitution of men and women who lend their intellects, their voices,…

— Paul Baran

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

All our advertising is propaganda, of course, but it has become so much a part of our life, is so pervasive, that we just…

— Pauline Kael

Advertising is the art of the tiny. You have to tell a complete a story and deliver a complete message in a very encapsulated…

— Dick Wolf

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

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

— Maurice Saatchi

“In fact quite generally, commercial advertising is fundamentally an effort to undermine markets. We should recognize that. If you’ve taken an economics course, you…

— Noam Chomsky