Advertising Quote by Herman E. Daly

People's wants are not fixed; they generally want what others in their chosen comparison class appear to be enjoying and what advertising presents to…

— Catherine Wilson

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

Of course advertising creates wants. Of course it makes people discontented, dissatisfied. Satisfaction with things as they are would defeat the American Dream.

— Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

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

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 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

Consumer wants can have bizarre, frivolous, or even immoral origins, and an admirable case can still be made for a society that seeks to…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate…

— Pope John Paul II

Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief.

— Anonymous

The essence of good advertising is not to inspire hope, but to create greed.

— Charles Adams

“Among the more pleasing by-products of the coming end of advertising is a heretical realization among some industry thinkers: the idea that for advertising…

— Andrew Essex

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