Ifs Quote by Haskell Wexler

Well, there is a contradiction in a sense. If you're making commercials which sell products which are unhealthy or which are unnecessary, I think…

— Haskell Wexler

The problem with doing commercials is that the only thing good enough for me to sell is myself, and I stopped doing that once…

— Zach Braff

“Consumerism tells us that in order to be happy we must consume as many products and services as possible. If we feel that something…

— Yuval Noah Harari

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

Commercials are not the only junk food in the speech market - indeed, when compared to shallow news reporting, vacuous television shows, or political…

— Rodney A. Smolla

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

Advertising is - quite often - alive to our real needs. It's just the products on offer might not be the things that will…

— Alain de Botton

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

People read things into my commercials that don't even exist.

— Calvin Klein

Philosophically, I don't like doing commercials.

— Herb Caen

When advertising is involved, you, the user, are the product.

— Jan Koum

To measure your needs by that which is projected via mass media is a mistake that has no mercy. The average person views a…

— Haki R. Madhubuti