Accomplish Quote by J. M. Coetzee

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

“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

I wish all consumers were as gullible as advertising's biggest critics. Anyone who believes advertising is that powerful will believe almost anything.

— Jef I. Richards

Being myself animated by feelings of affection toward my fellowmen, I am saddened by the modern system of advertising. Whatever evidence it offers of…

— Joseph Conrad

The deeper problems connected with advertising come less from the unscrupulousness of our 'deceivers' than from our pleasure in being deceived, less from the…

— Marston Bates

There is ugliness of mass production and consumerism, the banality of advertising. Although it claims to do just the opposite, it's predicated on disempowering…

— Stephanie Mills

Consumers know precisely what's wrong with advertising. Be it TV or print or whatever, they know that advertising is never creative enough ... never…

— Phil Dusenberry

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

— Maurice Saatchi

Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.

— Northrop Frye

“I am saddened by the modern system of advertising. Whatever evidence it offers of enterprise, ingenuity, impudence, and resource in certain individuals, it proves…

— Joseph Conrad

“And, in order to make us buy things we don’t need, advertisers have to make us believe that we need them. Desperately. So they…

— Francesca Martínez

The advertising industry is one of our most basic forms of communication and, allegedly, of information. Yet, obviously, much of this ostensible information is…

— Marvin E. Frankel