Contradiction Quote by Haskell Wexler

If you're making commercials which sell products which are unhealthy or which are unnecessary, I think that you are part of a system.

— Haskell Wexler

“The television commercial is not at all about the character of products to be consumed. It is about the character of the consumers of…

— Neil Postman

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

“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

“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

Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don't already want to buy.

— Christopher Lasch

What really decides consumers to buy or not to buy is the content of your advertising, not its form.

— David Ogilvy

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

“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

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

Regardless of the moral issue, dishonesty in advertising has proved very unprofitable

— Leo Burnett

I think that consumerism is intrinsically a pretty flawed social system.

— John Elkington