Advertising Quote by Joseph Conrad

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

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila

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

“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

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

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

“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

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

“When one comes to the ultra-modern profession of advertising," responded Schliemann—"the science of persuading people to buy what they do not want—he is in…

— Upton Sinclair

“Mind-changing is the road to advertising disaster.”

— Al Ries

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

— Johan Huizinga