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

Innocence can be redefined and called stupidity. Honesty can be called gullibility. Candor becomes lack of common sense. Interest in your work can be…

— Abraham Maslow

A vast sector of modern advertising... does not appeal to reason but to emotion; like any other kind of hypnoid suggestion, it tries to…

— Erich Fromm

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

According to the estimate of a prominent advertising firm, above 90 per cent, of the earning capacity of the prominent nostrums is represented by…

— Samuel Hopkins Adams

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

Credulity is always a ridiculous, often a dangerous failing: it has made of many a clever man, a fool; and of many a good…

— Frances Wright

“Let us not be content with merely ‘formatting’ generations, but instead, focus on cultivating and enlightening them, ensuring independent thinking where acceptance is in…

— Erik Pevernagie

I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all.

— Anonymous

I have a plan. It entails leading to a fair deal and relationship with the British. We will be reasonable, but we will also…

— Jean-Claude Juncker

Cynicism, like gullibility, is a symptom of underdeveloped critical faculties.

— Jamie Whyte

“If you are inherently a good guy, which I think I am, you instinctively want to help people even before you know what their…

— Dan Skinner