Advertising Quote by Joseph Conrad

“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

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

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

Denunciations of the manipulativeness of advertisers can unfortunately all too easily be turned on their heads into denunciations of the gullibility of consumers. Both…

— J. M. Coetzee

The greatest damage done by advertising is precisely that it incessantly demonstrates the prostitution of men and women who lend their intellects, their voices,…

— Paul Baran

What I find most injurious to mankind in modern advertising is the constant appeal to material standards and values, the elevating of material things…

— Ann Bridge

“The modern mentality is the child of human pride puffed up by commercial advertising.”

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila

“This background enables us to understand a fact that is symptomatic of the current phase of saturation: there are countless people who want to…

— Peter Sloterdijk

“In a culture of hyper-consumption the advertising industry has brainwashed many people into believing they can raise their status just by driving a particular…

— Stephen Richards

The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment.

— Johan Huizinga

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 profoundly manipulative at its core. Its imagery strives to deprive us of realistic ideas about love, sex, beauty, health, money, work, and…

— Jennifer L. Pozner