Commercials Quote by John O'Toole

Politics is gut; commercials are gut.

— Frank Luntz

“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

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

Like the effect of advertising upon the customer, the methods of political propaganda tend to increase the feeling of insignificance of the individual voter.

— Erich Fromm

When people see political ads, they think someone's lying to them.

— Mark McKinnon

Political advertising ought to be stopped. It's the only really dishonest kind of advertising that's left. It's totally dishonest.

— David Ogilvy

“Campaign ads are often nothing more than political taffy. The ingredients- the facts gathered by researchers such as Alan and me- are mixed together…

— Alan Huffman

Commercials on television are similar to sex and taxes; the more talk there is about them, the less likely they are to be curbed.

— Jack Gould

There is one category of advertising which is totally uncontrolled and flagrantly dishonest: the television commercials for candidates in Presidential elections.

— David Ogilvy

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

— Anonymous

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument, its function is to make the worse appear the better article. A confused competition of all propagandas…

— George Santayana